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...hurts me to see the Band, at its most public moments, discredit itself week after week, year after year. I can understand if one has an idea, tries it, and it doesn't go over. One discards it and all is soon forgotten and forgiven. But the pig-headed obstinacy of your present leadership in persisting for years with an approach that would close on Broadway after the opening week--this is unreasonable, and also inexcusable. It is rotten leadership...
Kissinger, with his many-layered mind, has always had a many-layered reputation. Once he couldn't go near a campus without hearing "War criminal!" He hasn't been forgiven by many yet, and he can't pass an airport newsstand these days without seeing a copy of the Atlantic, with an article accusing him of past perfidy in Chile. But he has become rich: Wall Street pays handsomely for his advice; editors want his words; his speeches command top prices; his reputation is secure as the dominant American strategist in foreign affairs for two decades...
...relations between Dublin and London have rarely been chillier: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has not forgiven Irish Prime Minister Charles Haughey for trying to persuade other European nations to adopt a neutral stance during the Falklands war. Haughey, for his part, is angry that he was not consulted about Prior's plan and agrees with S.D.L.P. Leader John Hume that the assembly is "unworkable." After last week's elections, an idea that had meant to bind the wounds of a bloodied land instead seemed more likely to inflict fresh pain...
March 9, 1953: Graham Greene was very agreeable and his beastliness to me in the past I have forgiven but not forgotten. He has a strange, tortured mind but, like most of God's creatures, aches to be loved...
...Phillip is far from satisfied. To his gangster employer Alonzo, "Phillip is a moody man, but he's a genius, so it's forgiven. "Unfortunately, Phillip's inquietude is more than temperament. For him. The American Dream has become a low-budget horror movie titled something like "The Revenge of Morpheus...