Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school will simply not experience." Navarrette refrains from claiming authority on the reality of that experience for every Mexican American. The publicity and word of mouth surrounding the book, though, suggest that it might be received as the definitive statement on Chicanos at Harvard. That would be a shame; Navarette's overbearing if engaging voice is hardly the last one that should be heard on the subject...
...conjunction with "youth tax," the righteously indignant slogan of Lead or Leave, "intergenerational morality" attempts to shame voters into making deficit reduction the nation's top priority. It suggests, vaguely, that the debt will come crashing down on the heads of today's children...
...Shame, Christopher, is the emotion Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 should feel when--despite the opportunities this world has given him and the honors this university has bestowed upon him--he would place himself above others in the eyes of God. The question is not, should civil rights be extended to gays, lesbians or any sexual minority (which is perhaps an issue of valid political and legal debate). The question is how Mansfield could dare to presume to cast judgment upon an entire group of people--a group of people who have nothing more in common than...
...haven't forgotten, ancient Greece glorified homosexual love. The closest civilization has ever come to destroying itself was in this century when a nation more concerned about 'the common good' than the rights of individuals, imprisoned and murdered as many homosexuals as it could. And did it without shame...
...lifestyle around it. But if you think that you know what civilization and homosexuality are really about and feel the need to preach your knowledge to the world, civilization will probably survive that too. The result will be a civilization that ought to feel a little bit more shame, that--after years of struggle to gain the right ti question and learn--a boy so self-righteous and arrogant could think himself worthy of being call a 'true' man. David A. Smith