Word: shamed
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...disturbed white viewers as well. Said Karen Bernard, 26, an unemployed Brooklyn teacher, "I cried all the way through one show. I have a child, and the fact that black women lived in fear of losing their children was devastating." Added Beverly Stallworth of Manchester, N.H.: "I feel some shame that I never cared enough to learn what it was like...
...sure-shot story (written originally by Wellman and Robert Carson). Norman Maine, an actor at the apex of stardom and about to slide into an alcoholic decline, meets, loves and marries a young woman named Esther Blodgett, whose fame gradually surpasses his own. Less out of bitterness than from shame, Maine commits suicide by walking into the surf at Malibu...
...mansion, he summed up the interviews as involving "good people, good advice, good folks." Later, en route to Washington, he was a bit more forthcoming. For one thing, he indicated that he has given up trying to persuade Young to join the Administration. Said Carter: "It's a shame. He's the best elected official I've ever met." Carter also said that his Secretary of Agriculture would "likely" come from the Midwest and his Secretary of the Interior from the West. This increased speculation that Minnesota Representative Bob Bergland would head Agriculture and Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus, Interior...
...even villains have a sense of shame...
...ashamed of my grandparents for being slaves," Ralph Ellison once wrote. "I am only ashamed for having at one time been ashamed." For all its cumbersomeness and speculative weak spots, Herbert Gutman's study has pried open an exit from black historical shame. Regardless of the later trials of Northern unemployment and additional problems that further study will undoubtedly point out, the message for slave history seems clear. The Sambo stereotype will just have to shuffle...