Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reunion, the wife becomes presumably the only matron in a tem ple of vestal virgins, the daughter certainly the only virgin in a brothel - peaks of survival which may outdo even Pericles' own. Shakespeare, the scholars say, wrote only the last three acts, and perhaps ought to be forgiven for them...
...they're occasionally even willing to act farcically on their own. Last fall, for instance, when the president of a new Harvard socialist group inaugurated its career with a vitriolic attack on SDS, the New American Movement, and a couple of leftist Crimson editors, bemused observers could have been forgiven for regarding it as one more in a seemingly endless series of reductions to absurdity of Harvard politics...
...successful 1969 bid for the presidency to the support of Giscard's Independent Republicans, a small swing party (62 seats in the 487-member National Assembly) that almost always lines up with Pompidou's U.D.R. (Democratic Union for the Republic). But old-line Gaullists have not forgiven Giscard for urging a non vote in the 1969 referendum that forced De Gaulle to resign. Thus whenever Giscard seems to be flying too high, prominent Gaullists like former Premier Michel Debré start shooting at him. So, occasionally, does Pompidou; there are reports that the President wrote in the margin...
...well at all with the Governor's new image." The ordeal of his paralysis seems to have mellowed Wallace, now 54. He does not even bear a grudge against his would-be assassin. "I hope he's a new man now," says Wallace. "I've forgiven...
McCleery's point of view reduces the seriousness of the issues his characters encounter, something of a sin in these cynical days. But if his plays work on stage, his positive reductionism could well be forgiven, even appreciated, for having provided an audience with the chance to lose themselves in a realistic world of make-believe for a few hours...