Word: shamed
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...fiancée he never married, are duly noted in his diary: "I am guilty of the wrong for which she is being tortured, and am in addition the torturer." It is but a step from that summary to The Judgment, which ends in the fiance's shame-filled suicide. To some extent, all writing draws on autobiography, but in no other major writer is the distance from experience to fiction so short. For Kafka, all fantasy is rooted in the personal and the everyday: the miserable home, the suffocating office, the unconsummated affair and, below all, the stale...
...defiant pose on the balcony of her motel, where she has been exiled in disgrace from the boardinghouse. Like Hawthorne's adulterous heroine, the teacher wears a scarlet letter A on her chest, with one modern addition: a plus sign on the right side. A badge of shame becomes, presto, a sexual advertisement; the event heralds "the birth of the 20th century T shirt...
...these critics are wrong, as the Zaremba and the boys put most of the new-fangled synth-pop bands to shame. What the Fleshtones show us is that New Wave is no more than a return, to a time before rock only made sense when the listener was heavily drugged (read: "Stairway to Heaven," "Free Bird...
...divine law. A yeshiva student walking home one evening was seriously wounded by knife-wielding youths; they were apparently retaliating against the actions of militant religious groups. At a performance of Handel's Messiah by the Utah Oratorio Society, young firebrands repeatedly interrupted the concert with shouts of "Shame!" and were hustled away by police after they stormed the stage. When Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek denounced the hooliganism at a rally, a man spit in his face and proclaimed that "God gave me the strength...
Abdul-Jabbar is more of an aesthete, a sky-hooker, not a slam-dunker, devastatingly shy. He has never been able to hide the shame of his height. Fourteen years ago, Abdul-Jabbar (né Lew Alcindor, U.C.L.A. '69) told Teammate Jon McGlocklin that he intended to play no more than five seasons of pro ball. Recently he ran into McGlocklin, who reminded him of this. It started Kareem reflecting on this job that he has only lately considered a profession. "It's getting to be scary," he says, "all the teammates and opponents who have come...