Word: shamed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Toni Morrison proved her ability to stand in a room imbued with our national history and still put her surroundings doubly to shame, both through the superior power of her presence and the doleful worldly realities she insistently describes. Paradise is not her strongest work, but it admirably continues her long-standing interrogation of how and by whom liberty and union are defined, of when and where they have ever truly existed...
...shame occupied the same place in American culture that it does in Japan, Washington, D.C., would be Suicide City. The hara-kiri of a Japanese Finance Ministry official this week after he was questioned by officials investigating bribery is simply the latest indication that the spectre of public disgrace still compels men of power in Japan to take the way of the samurai. Continued...
...power ballads of the late '80s and early '90s were too full of life to die so suddenly. Yet it's not only a shame in the musical sense that arena rock is near-dead. Every other musical genre of the last 50 years seems to have its place on the radio today. But those of us who did some major growing up in this period must now rely on the tunes in our head or on our dusty tape collections to bring back those bus rides to camp when we sang along to "Paradise City," or those hours camped...
...reporting lines will be the same. What we need to do is to put mechanisms in place to ensure that conflicts can be resolved. Next week I'm going to appoint a special representative of the Secretary-General to have a political presence in Iraq. It's a shame I have to admit that we haven't done this. I have also mentioned to Richard Butler that within his own organization, on the ground, he should strengthen the mechanism to resolve conflicts. If you don't deal with it, little problems become a drama, and before you know...
...rape is the axis of my year, more significant than my birthday," said Mary L. Pagones '98, dramatizing "Returns of the Day" from a New York Times article by Nancy V. Raine. "An anniversary that can be only marked by silence, a silence that tastes a lot like shame...