Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyone who has paid a lawyer's bill lately may be forgiven if he thinks that lawyers make a great deal of money. But according to a survey conducted for the Philadelphia Bar Association, most members of the legal profession would probably disagree. About 60% of all practicing lawyers in the U.S. operate on their own in one-man offices, and in this go-it-alone group the average income comes to only about $8,000 a year. Dentists without partners average $12,000, and medical doctors more than...
...Many wives are forgiven for falling; few for falling...
...single-minded pursuit of evil finds his soul, and in that soul a damning consciousness of his own sin. Just as the world, symbolized by the court, cannot cleanse itself, being innately corrupt, so Cust the sinner cannot save himself. He needs to be redeemed by innocent blood and forgiven through the gratuitous gift of love to the totally unworthy. Elena, the symbol of this grace, performs the dual function of awakening in Cust a conviction of sin and the possibility of salvation...
...only cavil concerns certain implausibilities in the plot. But Mr. Denning's exuberance is easily forgiven in light of the rebirth of this type of fiction...
...Argentine Composer Alberto Ginastera's Violin Concerto was finally heard in New York. Soloist Ruggiero Ricci and the orchestra did not rehearse the full concerto together until the morning of the premiere. But when the musicians reached the final instrumental fantasy that ends the work, the composer was forgiven his wish to linger over his music. The players leapt to their feet with rare shouts of "Bravo!"-as much for the absent Ginastera as for Ricci's command of the intricate music...