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...search for relentless relevance can go occasionally rhetorical, as in talk about "man's eternal quest for meaning, justice and truth." It can also turn a little too retroactive. Thus Abraham is labeled "the first angry young man" and Isaac becomes "the first survivor." But much may be forgiven an author who can look Adam in the eye and say, "Poor man: punished for nothing. And he wasn't even Jewish...
...steady opposition of the new monarch, Louis XVI, who inclines toward pacifism, and of former Finance Minister Anne Robert Turgot, who maintains that France's Treasury cannot afford a possible conflict with Britain and that the American Colonies will eventually win their freedom anyway. Vergennes, however, has never forgiven Britain for stripping France of most of its colonies after the French and Indian War. He sees the American Rebellion as a means of getting back at Britain, that "rapacious, unjust and faithless enemy...
...apology by Professor Davis was something of value, too. Confession is good for the soul. This letter expresses the hope that he will be forgiven by those against whom he has transgressed and that all may learn from this sorrowful situation that racism has no place in higher education at Harvard or elsewhere. Charles V. Willie Professor of Education and Urban Studies
...church is in effect granting divorces without admitting it. "They give a lot of annulments now. It's a cop-out." Asks Washington Attorney Lee Murphy, who is no longer a practicing Catholic because he is divorced and remarried: "Why can a man kill a guy and be forgiven by the church, yet I cannot say, 'Father, I made a terrible mistake. I picked the wrong woman, and it was a disaster...
Garry is a prancing, strutting peacock of a man who rarely stops acting--even when he is off the stage. He is the center of much attention and his excesses are obligingly tolerated and forgiven. He is everybody's favorite but in the context of the play it is difficult to figure out why this is so. Admittedly he has a childlike vulnerability that makes him attractive but there is nothing really admirable in his character. He is spoiled and self-centered. There are hints that beneath the pretentious veneer hides a warm and sympathetic man. But these remain only...