Word: shamed
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...gifted poet, critic and showman who has transformed his long struggle into a strange, mythicized American phenomenon of celebrity and mass therapy. Bly is the bardic voice of that interesting but vaguely embarrassing business, the men's movement, which strikes many men as somehow unmanly. Well, says Bly, that shame is something they will have to get over...
...many ways can crybabies parse shame and blame? In San Francisco last month, a motley flock turned out to picket the classic Disney movie Fantasia. One man complained that the spooky Night on Bald Mountain scene had terrified his child. Members of an organization called Dieters United objected to the tutu-clad hippos frolicking to the music of Dance of the Hours; the protesters felt the sequence ridiculed fat people. Conservationists were appalled at the waste of water in Sorcerer's Apprentice. Fundamentalist Christians bewailed ) the depiction of evolution in Rite of Spring. Antidrug forces suspected something subliminally prodrug...
...Whatever I say won't make much difference. But I really think that when we have reports that 100,000, maybe 150,000 children under the age of five will die within two months because of malnutrition, sickness and disease, it is a shame to all of us not to do something about it. There are ways and means by which to ensure that help gets to the people...
...country. A generation ago, some of the most oppressed blacks in the most harshly segregated state in the U.S. rose to claim their share of America's dream, and some whites did their violent worst to stop them. Television beamed the story to the world, and the nation's shame and anger forced the politicians in Washington to act. The result was new laws guaranteeing the civil rights of all citizens, regardless of their color...
...ignoring key pieces of evidence and misrepresenting others, Belin says, Stone casts doubt even on issues that are relatively clear-cut, like Oswald's murder of Dallas police officer J.D. Tippit. (Oswald was identified as the gunman at the scene by at least six eyewitnesses.) "It is a shame that a man as talented as Stone has had to go to such lengths to deceive the American public," says Belin...