Word: shaming
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...born into began to fade as my estimate of American racism declined. I could identify with a wider range of American ideas and possibilities when I thought they were no longer tainted by racism. Many whites I know today, who are trying to separate themselves from the shame of America's racist past, will overestimate racism to justify a liberal identity that they hope proves that separateness. First the estimation, then the identity...
...higher power, the story's final paragraph was the ultimate atheistic tweak of the nose: "a disembodied digital intelligence" may survive to note "an unimaginably vast, cold, dark and profoundly lonely place." Did the writer experience a jolt of perverse, sadistic joy in writing these depressing words? Shame on all of you for your pseudoscientific Chicken Littleism. LYNNE PERILLI Southbury, Conn...
Gary Condit's third interview with the cops brought him both shame and relief. After he spoke to them last Friday night, the news emerged that he had admitted to having a romance with Chandra Levy, the federal intern missing since April 30. But the police on Saturday declared that Condit had never been considered a suspect in her disappearance and was not one now; they also praised him for his cooperation. During the two previous interviews, FBI sources say, Condit was treated with kid gloves, even after agents learned that Levy had called the California Congressman five times from...
...Houston's view, of course, Davis simply screwed up, and is using them to hide his shame. In fact, on closer examination "Houston" isn't really even Houston. According to the LA Times, state records show that over the first three months of this year - some of the worst of the crisis - the power generator charging the most on average for a megawatt-hour, at $498, was Powerex, the trading arm of a Canadian public utility. After Powerex was a subsidiary of San Diego Gas & Electric's parent company - third-highest, at $292, went to the Los Angeles Department...
...slapstick--Ben Franklin gives people electric shocks as a bar trick, and George Washington gets high on the hemp from his own farm and speaks Yiddish. In Gravity's Rainbow, Tyrone Slothrop engages in a Malcolm X-assisted dive into a jazz-club toilet bowl that puts Trainspotting to shame. And in V., the New York City department of sanitation has a division arming men to kill the alligators in the sewers...