Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nominee is to win the election; there are certain lengths of honesty to which one can go and certain appeals which, though irrational, go over well. For any of the bright promises of the platform to be fulfilled, Kennedy must first win the election; I think he may be forgiven for trying to do so. His campaign, despite its weaknesses, has been more consistent than most; the errors, unlike those of Roosevelt in 1932, have been those of omission, not of commission...
...then the reader is vexed by her somewhat florid digressions. But the period is little known and the players absorbing. Mme. de Stael's remark is quoted: "In Russia, if they do not attain their objective, they always go past it." The author can be forgiven if she does both...
...memory of the four famed Army chaplains who went down with the troopship Dorchester in 1943-including Poling's own son, Lieut. Clark V. Poling. Congressman Kennedy accepted an invitation to speak, backed out at the last minute on advice from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Poling has never forgiven...
...Paris is a strident but adequate tenor named William Tabbert, who is built on the short stubby pattern traditional for tenors, but a little bit odd for one of history's most famous seducers. He acts in a manner for which a really first-rate tenor could be forgiven. Morley Meredith, who has some reputation as a concert baritone, sings the priest Calchas sumptuously, giving some idea of how Offenbach's music can sound given the voices it deserves...
...Hartley Act to call an 80-day halt in last year's steel strike (after the strike had dragged on for twelve weeks with no settlement in prospect) as the "most one-sided, unfortunate and unfair action in this Administration's history." Top A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders have forgiven him for his sponsorship of labor reform, have even publicly praised him for trying to "get rid of the more obvious injustices" of the Landrum-Griffin reform bill...