Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give you case to nausea a lot like the kind you would get from consuming an entire box of rock candy. But On Golden Pond survives because of two actors who once again prove that they can develop acceptable. If not quite plausible characters ex nihilo. It is a shame that actors like Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda should get saddled with parts like these. That they carry it off and breathe a little life into what might other wise be an inert pile of celluloid only suggests that their lustrous reputations are well-deserved Perhaps I am the sucker...
...this country, for instance, where some of the largest groups of Christians have become rabid fans of the New Right. Maybe through the example of a few great once--a Gandhi or a King, say. They transformed people; they filled the oppressed with dignity, and the oppressor with shame, and they, sometimes, won their battles. But great men often carry their magic with them to the grave; what other way to explain the silence, the slack, when they are gone...
...with Fellow Believers Mariya Chmykhalov, 59, and her son Timofei, 19, had traveled 2,000 miles by rail from the Siberian town of Cherno-gorsk. Thwarted by Soviet intransigence since then, the dispirited Augustina and Lidiya have now stopped eating in a desperate bid to win world attention and shame the Soviets into relenting...
...grew up around his life? The eyewitnesses in the movie Reds, men and women who knew either John Reed or his wife, give a sensuous picture of what life must have meant to a man who graduated from Harvard and died a Russian patriot. But it's almost a shame Walter Lippmann himself couldn't be there to tell all interested about the life of his college friend. One can only think that Walter Lippmann himself might have been the best eyewitnesses for Reed's life from the day both of them walked into Harvard Yard until his interment...
...specially developed freshman assessment test to determine placement, not admission. Half of C.U.N.Y.'S students require special help, and remedial courses are not for credit. Says Marie Jean Lederman, a former English professor who now directs the freshman skills assessment program: "It would be a great shame, given the inequality of our educational system, not to at least give these students one more chance. To say that we can eliminate the problem by eliminating the people is overly simplistic...