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There is something very freeing about adversity. Given the difficult job of putting on a play, in one end of a House dining room or in the cramped Experimental Theatre, these same anxious students can assume they will be forgiven their lapses; in consequence they often make fewer...
...Love Thing. Even when Soupy's ways led him to transgressions, he was forgiven. In January, for instance, an antic whim led him to suggest to all those kiddies out there that they get ahold of Daddy's wallet and remove "those little green pieces of paper with pictures of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Lincoln and Jefferson and send them to me, and I'll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico." Four $1 bills came in, and so did a stiff complaint. Soup was canned, but only temporarily. His suspension became an instant cause. The phone...
...Zeit in a front-page editorial noted that there is a "new generation" of Germans which knows Nazi crimes "only from history books and which therefore finds it hard to comprehend that being a German is a flaw of birth. For the sake of this generation, we may be forgiven for saying: One cannot treat a nation like a juvenile delinquent-always under the moral sword, a potential criminal until he proves the contrary...
Licenses for Trouble. At issue, as the smoke gradually cleared, were family rivalry and the spoils system. The potent Sananikone clan has never forgiven Phoumi Nosavan for kicking out their patriarch, Phoui Sananikone, as Premier six years ago. One of the clan, General Kouprasith Abhay, is military governor of Vientiane, and he has recently been quarreling with a Phoumi partisan, General Siho Lamphouthacoul, over who should control such imports as liquor and medicine, as well as the lucrative fees from opium and gambling dens. As a result, licensing patrols of Kouprasith's soldiers and Siho's police have...
...most bitter defeat in June 1940, when as the 73-year-old commander of Allied troops in France, he found the Nazi blitzkrieg so overwhelming that he recommended capitulation before the entire country was overrun; of complications following a broken hip; in Paris. Over the years most Frenchmen have forgiven his lack of fighting spirit, putting it down to age and a lifetime spent thinking in terms of trench warfare. But not Charles de Gaulle, who denied him a funeral at Les Invalides, traditional shrine for French military heroes...