Word: shamed
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...with a philosophy of life; self-fulfillment comes only through complete devotion to someone else. On his journey through space the Little Prince encounters a whole series of lonely, tired men who act as foils for this philosophy; a king without subjects, a drunk who drinks to forget his shame of drinking, a businessman who has deluded himself into thinking that he owns the stars. Yet though it is a "message" book. Saint Exupery's prose is so delightfully disarming that even the most devoted of Ayn Rand's flock could swallow...
...they believed that nationally, the issue of University investment policy was in a momentary logjam. They hoped that Harvard University, by making a solid commitment against colonialism, might be able to break the impasse. Perhaps they thought at the outset of their campaign that Harvard Administrators--feeling some shame for the participation of their country and their University in the destruction of Indochina--might intervene at an early stage of a Vietnam-in-the-making...
...Angeles, on the other hand, shame is the remedial motive, and not because the city's harbor has been aptly described as an "open cesspool." Rather, the local water-quality-control board's sole public member, Ellen Stern Harris, pointedly began inviting taxpayers and television reporters to board meetings. Under this public scrutiny, the embarrassed board immediately toughened its antipollution policies, putting potential polluters on tight cleanup schedules. As a result, says Cecil Muchmore of the harbor pollution patrol, "the fish are coming back...
...glory but shame on Swimmer Spitz for his sickening lampshade wisecrack -from one of the millions whose aunts were murdered at Auschwitz...
...such stories the reader may rebel at the some what mechanical process by which the dreams are triggered. Once learned, it is the same trick every time it is done. Barthelme used this single effect to transmute himself with rapidity into a brilliant bore, and it would be a shame if Goldberg repeated that wasteful performance...