Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arriving on the set of Das Rheingold to begin rehearsals, Wolfgang Wagner struck his forehead and exclaimed: ''Is it possible that you're all Americans? He could be forgiven for thinking so. In the cast were Texan Thomas Stewart, Singer Sewing Machine Heir David Thaw, New York's Regina Resnik, California's Jerome Hines. Also at Bayreuth were such regulars as George London (Canadian-born but a U.S. citizen), New York's Astrid Varnay, Cleveland's Grace Hoffmann-plus California's Irene Dalis and San Francisco's Jess Thomas, both making...
Last week, long after most Britons had forgiven or forgotten Wodehouse's broadcasts, the controversy flared back with much of its wartime acrimony. It was ignited by Fellow Novelist Evelyn Waugh. In a BBC broadcast on the 20th anniversary of Connor's explosion, Waugh offered "An Act of Homage and Reparation," designed to "express the disgust the BBC has always felt for the injustice of which they were guiltless and complete repudiation of the charges so ignobly made." A far-right Tory himself. Waugh declared that attempts to brand Wodehouse a fascist were part of a wartime conspiracy...
...best of Visconti's scenes look honestly at the appalling depths of brother love: two of the brothers quarrel over a girl, and one of them rapes and eventually murders her, yet is forgiven. But the acting is pointlessly, if deliberately, melodramatic; the murderer needlessly apes a silent-film villain-slack jaw, rolling eyes and all. Whole episodes are unprofitably murky. A question at the core of the film -whether corrosive city is preferable to deadening land-is never convincingly asked, although Rocco is supposed to end with its answer. Worst is the endless mayhem. Visconti's camera...
Even on that dreadful morning, Coventry did not presume to suggest who was to be forgiven...
...details of the 70-minute discussion last week remained a secret between the President and his guests. But the Dallas Times Herald's Executive Editor Felix R. McKnight, acting as group spokesman, made it clear that Kennedy has not yet been forgiven his inappropriate lecture on the cold war responsibilities of the press. Kennedy's visitors saw no present or future need for censorship, short of "a declaration of a national emergency, or something like that." Added McKnight: "There was no agreement today...