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...affair becomes the scandal of Whitehall, and Bogarde eventually slinks back to Oxford in disgrace. A year later, though, the old boys need him again and all is forgiven. Bogarde and York rejoin forces-he mechanically holding the solution to the Reds' most recent conundrum in his mind, she tenderly holding their illegitimate son in her arms...
...junta's attitude toward King Constantine. Papadopoulos and the King exchanged warm Christmas greetings, and emissaries continued to shuttle between Athens and Rome, all of which led many Greeks to believe that the King's return was imminent. But the hard-liners have not yet forgiven the King for his attempt to overthrow the junta, and, in fact, even resented his statements in Rome heartily endorsing the government's amnesty and its announcement of a plebiscite on the new constitution by September. Before they let him return, the hard-liners want the King to understand that...
...Buckley substance is forgiven for the Buckley style. "He is as brilliant an adversary as he is bankrupt an advocate," says Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr. To M.I.T. Political Science Professor Lincoln P. Bloomfield, "he is an exceedingly witty, attractive and rather insidious spokesman for a point of view for which I have few sympathies. But if we don't want to die of sheer boredom, the Buckleys should be encouraged." Buckley offers his own well-considered self-analysis: "I feel I qualify spiritually and philosophically as a conservative, but temperamentally I am not of the breed...
They could all unite, however, in their hostility to Communism. Some, like Burnham and Meyer, had been Communists and understood the viciousness of the creed-nor have they forgotten or forgiven. If there has been a thaw in the Soviet Union, there is no way of telling from the Review. The publication denounces the nuclear test-ban treaty as a sellout to the Russians; Burnham writes a column on foreign affairs called "The Third World War"-the Review has no doubt that it has begun. Not long ago, Buckley urged the U.S. to bomb China's nuclear installations-once...
...Guinness, a short day's journey from death, recounts his wasted life of lies in a graveyard retreat. Priestlike, Burton answers the tortured confession with a symbolic absolution. At such moments of transcendent drama-and there are enough to make it worthwhile-The Comedians is easily forgiven its other sins...