Word: shaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joke. The longer Burgess's education proceeds, the more unqualified he becomes for useful employment. He meets and later marries a spirited Welsh classmate at Manchester University who has an idiosyncratic notion of marital fidelity: "There were plenty of attractive people around and it would be a shame and a waste not to find out what they were like with their clothes off." World War II offers Burgess nearly six years of wasted time in uniform; he gets no closer to combat than Gibraltar. Then it is on to teaching, including stints in England, Malaya and Brunei, before his death...
...rise of the proliferation of sexual diseases. These diseases are typically dismissed as accidental; perhaps, however, they are pregnant with meaning. Consider: underlying modern man's promiscuity is the notion of man's natural shamelessness. We have been taught that sex is man's sole and overpowering desire. Shame generally and Victorian conventions specifically are, the argument runs, radically unnatural...
...maybe this teaching is wrong. Maybe it's shame that's natural, not shamelessness. The modern effort to free man from shame would then be an effort to make him something other than what nature had intended. Sexual disease could then be said to be nature's scourge against shameless sexual promiscuity. But liberal orthodoxy prevents me from saying such a thing...
...earthquake. Stock in condom manufacturers soared by as much as 500 points on the Tokyo exchange. A TV news special seeking to pinpoint the source of the problem, suggested darkly that foreign sailors frequenting Kobe's red-light district were to blame, and asked: "Can Kobe live down this shame...
...localities have resorted to the most low-tech deterrent of all: shame. Sarasota County, Fla., is trying the "scarlet letter" approach, by requiring motorists convicted of drunk driving to paste bumper stickers on their cars announcing the fact. In Lincoln County, Ore., a few felons have even been given a choice between prison and publishing written apologies, accompanied by their photographs, in local newspapers. Roger Smith, 29, paid $294.12 to announce his contrition in two papers after a guilty plea growing out of a theft charge. A published apology "takes the anonymity out of crime," insists Ulys Stapleton, Lincoln County...