Word: shamed
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...friend is a pimp, and so it goes. Unfortunately, the play does not go-either toward social comment or domestic disaster, or toward that uncommon probing of the commonplace, the drab and the degraded that unveils an expanse of spirit in a waste of shame. All that remains is slice-of-life realism, which an inept director and cast turn into a slice at life that misses by a Manchester mile...
...Belief. "Drivel," retorted Walter L. Allen, safety education chief of the Alabama Public Safety Department. "As a Southern white man and a police officer with a record of which I have no shame, I can. do and shall disagree. I for one shall not abjectly surrender." Southerners, said Allen, have "no real hate for the Negro. We merely despise the mores, actions, principles and behavior of the mass. It is our sincere belief that by accepting the unusual Negroes we open every door to the most undesirable ethnic group in the civilized world...
...Mary Kincaid. an Ann Arbor housewife, it seemed a shame that little boys all around were quitting French classes out of boredom. She herself had minored in French at the University of Michigan, practiced it in Paris, and developed a passion for French literature. Not long ago, she reread Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and observed, "Hugo has more adventure than Davy Crockett"-a thought that led readily to the idea of putting Hugo into a comic strip...
...such pretentiousness happily disappears in several sections employing all the dancers, the chorus and the two principal characters. Guzzetti's writing maintains a delightful buoyancy among these voices, and the singers coordinated their lines well under conductor David Klausner. But the shame is that Guzzetti keeps the tension so steady that these sections never take on the promise they deserve...
...Negro leader mused recently. "You begin to realize that white people who are supposed to be on your side aren't even listening to what we say. They're content to let things remain as they are while they talk about progress, or say 'isn't it a shame' and then forget about the whole thing...