Word: shamefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems a shame that Inauguration Day isn't a national holiday. I would like to have my children home from school so that they could watch the events on television. Instead, they are home on Columbus Day, Washington's Birthday, Lincoln's Birthday, when the only thing they see is the sales in the department stores. Congress should rethink our entire national holiday setup...
...that West could best help his old team by finding the fountain of youth and coming back as himself, the matchless Mr. Clutch who as a high-scoring guard led the Lakers into the N.B.A. playoffs 14 times in 14 years. The post-West Lakers had been a crying shame, winding up the 1976 season next to last in the Pacific Division with a dismal record of 40 wins and 42 losses...
...Times Book Review piece on this new biography of Simone Weil. The questioner was suggesting that Weil, the French Jewish philosopher who died of self-inflicted starvation during the Second World War, was driven in her life and was led to final self-destruction by a sense of racial shame and guilt...
Whatever be the truth, it's a shame that this gourmand's delight and the namesake of this country's finest collegiate hockey tourney has to be subjected to such maltreatment. While the time for apology is long past, it's still not too late. Beans are forgiving legumes--they live for more than just revenge and motorcycles...
...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...