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Most of her peculiarities are to be admired, not forgiven. Besides enlivening otherwise routine affairs, she had made many, contribution to her House. Her laudable taste has carefully guided the decoration of Lowell common rooms, she has assisted House members in innumerable ways, and has helped significantly in defining the somewhat nebulous position of a Master's wife...
Last week word came from the White House that the President had named Bowles Ambassador to India, a post he filled in 1951-53 as an appointee of Harry Truman. Bowles will replace Economist John Kenneth Galbraith. who wants to go back to Harvard. Perhaps Kennedy has forgiven Bowles. Or perhaps, looking ahead to 1964, he thought there might be a bit of political risk in keeping Bowles in limbo. Bowles still has a band of admirers among U.S. liberals, some of whom used to think of him as presidential timber...
...turned out, the trip involved considerable research in French nightclubs and sunbathing in Greece in company with two young female aides. Powell's headline-making, who-cares manner of junketing called into criticism the whole system of congressional travels-and it was this that was not forgiven...
...wavering would have brought collapse. Limited and alone though I was, I had to climb to the heights and never then to come down. (1940, describing his wartime leadership) Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him if he can make of them the means to achieve great ends. Aloofness, character, and the personification of greatness, these qualities it is that surround with prestige those who are prepared to carry a burden which is too heavy for lesser mortals...
...bestselling novel of all time is, ironically, a bitter attack on the most sacred event in Mexican history: the 1910 Revolution. It takes an exceptional writer to go against his native grain and still be popular. But Mariano Azuela wrote The Underdogs with such unsparing honesty that he was forgiven his iconoclasm. Few novels have so fiercely proclaimed that war, revolution included, is hell...