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...back into society. Forgiveness is not a conference "agenda item," says Bruce Kittle, a Wisconsin pastor and clinical professor who consults on the state's restorative justice programs, but "we talk about it with victims beforehand. Particularly in violent cases, it sometimes has a more direct role." Says Walter Dickey, a former head of the Wisconsin department of correction: "What you end up with is a lot of apologies by offenders." And about 85% of the time, he estimates, these are followed by a two-part victim response: "a flat-out statement that what you did to me was wrong...
...been one month and 20 days since my last show," I say. "It's been so long they've already replaced my replacement. It's been really tough, man. The day the Congressman from Clinton's district, Jay Dickey, completely screwed up the Shoeless Joe Jackson anecdote during the impeachment debate? I nearly called in to Larry King." I begin to sniffle. "I phoned an all-news radio station as an eyewitness to a high-rise fire...and then I saw three guys arguing on a corner, and I interrupted them by shouting, 'We'll be right back...
...come away from Summer of Deliverance thinking that the really complicated business here was not so much James Dickey's life (he died in early 1997 at the age of 73) as his son's effort--tender, scathing, forgiving--to sort it out. Christopher Dickey begins the book, "My father was a great poet, a famous novelist, a powerful intellect, and a son of a bitch I hated...
...market is somewhat overstocked with confessional memoirs at the moment, but the younger Dickey, who is Paris bureau chief for Newsweek, writes with a fine complexity, acquired the hard way, by experience with a self-absorbed father, a mother who was herself alcoholic and a family drama that descended, from time to time, to the gothically dysfunctional. After Christopher's mother died of cancer at age 50, the widowed poet waited just two months before marrying a former student of his, almost 30 years his junior. In 1991 the local newspaper reported that she was caught injecting cocaine...
Toward the end of James Dickey's life, after his liver had sent in its formal resignation (in the form of alcoholic hepatitis), he quit drinking and--though a ruin of a man, hardly able to take 10 steps without collapsing into a chair--blossomed forth with an extraordinary intellectual radiance and simplicity. He displayed as never before a splendid gift for conversation, for friendship (I knew him a little), for teaching (he was a professor for years at the University of South Carolina) and for fatherhood. It was in that last period--his once massive and muscular body shrunken...