Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reporters can be forgiven. So entrancing is her exterior that it is hard to look much further. Even her directors, some of Europe's best, almost gush when they talk about her. "Dominique has charm and allure that are outside of our time today," says Bernardo Bertolucci, who directed her in The Conformist. He compares her to F. Scott Fitzgerald heroines, who destroyed men with their reckless charm...
...which may be renewed so long as the graduate remains in a low-income situation. Applications for post-ponement of payment are to be decided on the basis of Federal income tax returns. If any indebtedness remains after 13 years, the graduate may apply to have the loan "forgiven," with all repayment obligation cancelled...
...jeopardize your credibility or mine by making me sound too good. I have, as you know, a generous measure of faults, weaknesses and errors. As De Gaulle once said: "Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends." I confess to all the faults De Gaulle describes. I only hope they can be turned to worthwhile ends...
...inspiration: drilling the crew in riflery to repel prospective boarders, trying to lay on the young seamen some sort of religious inspiration, holding sessions about the strategic purpose of the war. The disobeying of orders to get near the enemy, too - how often have such devices been tried, and forgiven afterward when they were successful, by such naval heroes as Robert Mitchum and John Wayne...
More practically, how could the U.S. ever field an army of draftees again if it established the precedent that draft evasion will be forgiven? An act of compassion and mercy now, however well-intentioned, might cost the country its freedom at some time in the future. And while amnesty might reconcile one group, say the opponents, it would embitter many Americans. Healing some wounds, it would exacerbate others, they contend. Senator Taft can attest to the bitterness of those who oppose amnesty. He asked one protester what should be done about draft evaders if his plan is rejected. The answer...