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McCleery's point of view reduces the seriousness of the issues his characters encounter, something of a sin in these cynical days. But if his plays work on stage, his positive reductionism could well be forgiven, even appreciated, for having provided an audience with the chance to lose themselves in a realistic world of make-believe for a few hours...
...Steiger asked a meeting of the Sheboygan Kiwanis Club how many wanted the President to disclose more facts, every man raised his hand. They looked around and grinned at their own unanimity. The mood in the room was that if the President would just come clean, he would be forgiven...
Someone else's generosity is a difficult thing to judge. But his countrymen may be forgiven if they regard Richard Nixon-a man who has spoken so much about the importance of voluntary effort and private charities-as exceptionally tightfisted...
Although Twelfth Night is not without its weaknesses, they more often come from too much rather than too little effort--words which are almost too erudite in deliverance and grimaces which are too rubbery. Yet even these faults deserve to be forgiven, for, as the Clown would say, sins that transgress are patched with virtue...
...lead me to reject the politics and the policies of the Kennedy administration. There is no forgiving Kennedy the Bay of Pigs, the expansion of our imperialist involvement in Indochina, his incredibly belligerent cold war rhetoric or his brinksman handling of the Cuban missile crisis. Nor can Kennedy be forgiven the domestic surveillance he allowed his brother to institute or the wiretaps he permitted to be placed. There is no escaping the fact that many of Johnson's and Nixon's most repressive policies have their antecedent roots in the administration of John Kennedy...