Word: shamed
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...pallbearers were to be found among friends, so seven newsmen were recruited for the job. Texas ministers, for all their talk about the shame of Dallas and the redemption of sin, seemed notably reluctant to preside. So the police chief telephoned the Rev. Louis A. Saunders, executive secretary of the Fort Worth Council of Churches, who left off watching Kennedy's funeral on TV and went to the cemetery. "Someone," he explained, "had to help this family...
...priests, the older of whom agrees with the death sentence for the reason that Tombo is a brute and cannot expiate his sin through repentance. It is too much for the younger priest. "Go ahead!" he shouts to the old maids. "Sacrifice that poor creature. Revenge yourself for your shame, your ridiculous impotence, your rancor, your rage." The sisters order the priest from the house, and while the housekeeper holds Tombo's arms, one of the sisters stabs him through the heart with a gold hatpin. "We're killing our brother!" shrieks one old maid as the other...
...stunned, ashamed, and depressed.... This community bears a justifiable guilt, and we who stood around and listened to the trash--fearing a reprisal or a 'tag' if we spoke out--perhaps are the most guilty." It remains to be seen whether his feeling of anguish and shame is wide-spread, and strong enough to have a permanent effect on the public stance of Southern moderates...
Samuel H. Miller, Dean of the Faculty, delivered the prayer. "Our tongues are stunned by a violence we cannot believe; our prayers stumble in the darkness of our shame; we see through a glass darkly, while the shadows shift and fade into the long tragedy of hate and fear that emingly never ends," he said...
...shame that four fine performances had to be wasted on such a play. Marilyn Chris is delightfully bouncy as Nancy, but there's only so much she can do with her lines. Alex Wipf, as Tolen, jumps out of windows neatly, and Alex Canaan is competent as the bumbling schoolteacher...