Word: shamefulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fine a point on it, their children would not fight in their war. Before it was over, the ROTC building at Harvard had been converted into a day-care center. Worse, a singularly derelict day-care center. . . as if fecundity itself had been discredited and shame was everywhere. Time heals such hurts...
KING RENÉ'S BOOK OF LOVE. Introduction and commentaries by F. Unterkircher. Braziller. $15. During the waning of the Middle Ages, these illuminated manuscripts lighted lives. The medieval characters are allegorical: the Knight Cueur confronts the enemies of Love-Denial, Shame and Fear-in his search for the Lady Sweet Grace. He finds his lady-only to lose her again, and end his days in prayer and remembrance. The story, Cueur d'Amours Espris, was written in 1457; the gold-trimmed illustrations were executed a decade later-possibly by the King himself. An informative commentary precedes each...
Gumbooted Bears. Ayckbourn is one of England's funniest, most prolific playwrights, with a fine ear for middle-class patterns of speech. Sometimes his dialogue snaps back like Noel Coward's; at others, he evokes P.G. Wodehouse's rococo style. It is a shame that this production fails to do him or Norman justice. A man who envisions Australia in winter as an army of gumbooted koala bears and who can find menace in his pajamas ("The tops are alright-it's the bottoms you've got to watch") must be lovable. Richard Benjamin...
...word of Whitlam's ouster spread through Canberra, a crowd of his sympathizers gathered in front of Parliament House chanting: "Shame, Fraser, shame!" and "We want Gough!" Responding to their cries, Whitlam, whose election in 1972 had ended 23 years of rule by conservative parties, emerged to greet the demonstrators and lead them in a chorus of Solidarity Forever, international unionism's anthem. In Melbourne, hundreds of protesters stormed the headquarters of Fraser's Liberal Party, stoned it, and smashed its windows. Melbourne union leaders proclaimed Friday "Stop the State Day," calling on 500,000 workers...
...mass rally in Manhattan, 40,000 people waved Zionist banners, sported buttons proclaiming I AM PROUD TO BE A ZIONIST and hoisted placards charging that the U.N. had succumbed to Nazism. Black Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin cited the Arabs' long involvement in the African slave trade. "Shame on them!" thundered Rustin. "[They] are the same people who enslaved my people...