Word: shame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good gossip should have no shame, and Angus Wilson has little. In his current, brilliantly readable collection, Wilson has given the dreadful dossiers of about 40 odd types, ranging from pathological spivs to a loony peer. The intellectuals shuffle inside their ideas like men in borrowed dirty clothes. Most of the characters have ambiguous attitudes toward sex, money and class. The title story, A Bit Off the Map, is the personal narrative of Kennie, one of the loose-jawed, tight-jeaned set known in London as Teddy boys, who falls in with a crew of intellectuals. They are dismal London...
...prevent these "prominent members of the team" from playing against Yale this afternoon would subject the three players to the indelible shame of damning national publicity and would amount to punishment before the establishment of guilt, a guilt that currently appears dubious...
Hank Aaron of Milwaukee for Hall of Fame; Faubus of Arkansas for Hall of Shame...
...Shame & Triumph. Aisha hated her two years in exile (in Corsica, and later, Madagascar). But while she was away, her star waxed ever brighter in the Moroccan firmament. Moroccan women pinned pictures of the Sultan and Aisha on their walls, slipped back and forth between French and Moroccan lines smuggling arms and revolutionary tracts beneath their flowing djellabahs. Thirteen-year-old girls signed up in clandestine cells of the Istiqlal Party. And in a Moroccan version of Lysistrata, thousands of Moroccan women denied themselves to their husbands for two years for fear of bringing into the world children born under...
...strongest pitch is not to the ear but the heart. During its 4 a.m.-to-midnight schedule, it airs hundreds of distress calls, ranging from alarms for lost children to pleas for blood donors. As a tracer of missing persons, it puts radio's fictional Mr. Keen to shame, has a stringer system all over the South to help in tracking them down. Last year WDIA gave baseball uniforms and equipment to 650 boys, is now raising funds for an orphanage...