Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along with his boss Andrei Gromyko, Dobrynin looked Kennedy in the eye and denied there were missiles in Cuba. Did he lie? Probably. But he was forgiven because his untruth was within the bounds of diplomatic duplicity. He negotiated enthusiastically for an arms summit with Lyndon Johnson. The night before announcement of the summit, Dobrynin rushed to tell the President that Soviet troops were moving into Czechoslovakia. End of summit. Another deception? Of course, but again he charmed his way back to credibility...
...when Cornish's nephew calls upon them in jest, they appear (not to the nephew of course, only to the reader) to tell the tale. Why does Davies do this? Well, it's kind of clever and amusing at first. And the use of these two characters could be forgiven if they weren't used in such an amateurish way. Throughout the novel they interrupt every once in a while to explain the most recent occurrence in the life of Francis Cornish. "If you wish to talk of Chance', said the Daimon Maimas. 'But you and I know how deceptive...
Gorbachev's signals to non-Soviet Communists have been similarly varied. To leaders of the Italian Communist Party, who regularly proclaim independence from the Kremlin and in pre-Gorbachev days were just as regularly denounced for it by Moscow, the message seems to be that all is forgiven. Gorbachev reportedly has told two prominent Italian Communists who met separately and privately with him on visits to Moscow that he recognizes their right to hold an independent view of how to apply Marxist precepts in Italy...
...conditions for repentance: one must go in genuine contrition to the person sinned against, and one must do one's best to compensate for the wrong done. But how can a Nazi, say, compensate a Jew for exterminating his entire family? In that sense, some crimes simply cannot be forgiven...
...Madam," as she was dubbed in headlines, was charged last year with running a posh prostitution service out of a Manhattan town house. Apparently the indiscretion did not much bother the 300 guests who paid $40 apiece to bolster her legal-defense hope chest. Not that Barrows was totally forgiven. "She was stupid," chided one guest, "she used credit cards." Some things are just too vulgar to overlook...