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American farmers have been crying wolf for so long that their city cousins have mostly stopped listening. But along rural back roads last week, the expressions of anguish seemed genuine. Farmers sometimes differed about the causes of their distress, but they shared a frustration, almost a sense of shame, about their plight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinging to the Land | 2/18/1985 | See Source »

...Delaney Smith wasn't upset about the loss I talked to some people in the stands and some people from Brown after the game," she said, "and they all agreed it way a shame that someone had to lose...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Brown Edges Cagers; Crimson Pushes Champs | 2/11/1985 | See Source »

...such design innovations probably would not be enough to quell the aesthetic fears of Harvard Square residents. "There's a place for MacDonalds in society, but they don't have to be everywhere," Gifford said. "It would be a shame to have Harvard Square go the same way as other urban areas and becoming homogenized...

Author: By Matthew A. Saal, | Title: You Can't Have It Your Way in Harvard Square; Local Laws Restrict Fast Food Establishments | 2/6/1985 | See Source »

...record of Harvard students on connecting their politics to their real lives is not consistently good. Graduates of the late 1960s, who so vociferously protested the war in Vietnam, now look back with shame to their decision to evade the draft and their effective decision to leave the burden of that war on the poor of this country. In a poignant article he wrote for The Washington Monthly in 1975, the journalist James Fallows, a member of the Harvard Class of 1970, recalled that rationalizations he and his classmates used for their action, most notably the argument that...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowiz president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 1/30/1985 | See Source »

Known simply as Pyat or cryptically as Pallenberg, Moorcock's dubious hero was born on the first day of 1900 to a laundress and a "radical" father who stayed around just long enough to have his son circumcised. The mark of Abraham is Pyat's secret shame and key to a mordant joke underlying The Laughter of Carthage. There is enough internal evidence (allusions and outbursts of Yiddish) to conclude that Pyatnitski's gene pool is thoroughly integrated. Rabid anti-Semitism is his way of denying the past and advancing his career as scientist and gentleman. There is also ample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Westward Ha the Laughter of Carthage | 1/28/1985 | See Source »

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