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...could not bear to watch the news. She had been stung badly by the defeat, and most particularly by comments that the Reagans had restored some class to the White House. Carter was so enraged he was ready to punch one disparaging writer, but he says he has since forgiven him. Rosalynn is not that easy. When a tactless old friend teased her recently about laying out a tablecloth for lunch, saying that Nancy Reagan surely would have approved, she glared at him, unamused...
...Yawkey was a Real Gentleman. This is the ultimate accolade. Fegan thinks Eddie Yost is a Real Gentleman. Caterino thinks the old shortstop Johnny Pesky is a Real Gentleman. The Old Boys admire Ted Williams, but nobody calls him a Real Gentleman. Ted has not been forgiven for refusing...
Sparky Anderson is hitting fungoes. "They've forgiven us," marvels the Detroit manager. "Baseball has to be the luckiest business in the world. Whatever we do to louse it up, we can't." Johnny Pesky is chewing tobacco. Everything Sparky says, the wrynecked coach of the Boston Red Sox endorses with a streamer and a splat. "Baseball," Sparky says, "is bigger than the people running...
Indeed, the Watergate crew has turned out to be an incredibly literate band of co-conspirators, producing a stream of fiction and non-fiction that began, it seems with the first indictment Charles Colson, in his memoir, Born Again, told how Jesus--if no one else--has forgiven him for paying hush money to the Watergate burglars. In Blind Ambition, John Dean reminded us that he decided to snitch on Nixon for the good of the country--not to mention the success of his own plea-bargaining. And G. Gordon Liddy's bizarre autobiography, Will, left no doubt that...
...purges of the 1930s and 40s may remain unchallenged as the greatest. Under his direction, forced collectivization of land saw millions of people murdered throughout the Russian countryside, all for the creation of a centralized, military, industrial state and the dream of Communism in Russia. Whether he remains forgiven is the question to ask. The Times article described an aura of resentment that hung over Suslov's funeral ceremony in Moscow. Even with the grand treatment expended towards commemoration of his death, how, after all, could anyone forget the atrocities he committed, almost with his own hands...