Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politicians routinely vie with each other for the Li'l Abner prize for most humble, most miserable upbringing. The Democrats in Madison Square Garden were no exception. After four days of speeches a foreign visitor could be forgiven for thinking indoor plumbing was a Reagan-era innovation...
NELSON ROCKEFELLER (1976). With Gerald Ford facing a challenge from Ronald Reagan for the Republican nomination in 1976, Rockefeller served as a lightning rod for conservatives, who had never forgiven him for opposing Barry Goldwater in 1964. Rocky tried to appease the right wing by attacking welfare "cheats." To no avail: Ford's campaign manager described him as the President's "No. 1 problem" in winning the G.O.P. nomination. In November 1975 Rockefeller jumped off the ticket before Ford could push him. Ford replaced him with Kansas Senator Bob Dole, but the ticket lost to Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale...
Katz began the interviews for Home Fires four years ago and obviously became fond of the Gordons. He is pleased that they now seem at peace with themselves and the faith that even "the most wounded of families could eventually heal." Readers will be forgiven if they attribute some of the Gordons' semihappy ending to sheer exhaustion...
...because the main thing when you die is what happens to your soul. I'm a born-again Christian. I love everybody; I don't hate anybody. I even pray to the Heavenly Father for the fellow that shot me to ask forgiveness of his sins, because I have forgiven him. (During his 1972 presidential bid, Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer, which left him paralyzed from the waist down.) I don't feel bitter toward him. I would have wasted myself away if I had been hating all these years. I don't hate...
...candidates can be forgiven, then, for breaking the taboo on the mention of class. But now that they've gone this far, why not take the rest of the marbles out of their mouths and refrain from using middle class as a muffled code meaning not poor? After all, the middle class has achieved celebrity status on account of its relative poverty, so those who live in absolute poverty should be at least as deserving of a politician's fleeting attention. A mortgage may be a crippling burden, but it beats having no home...