Word: guiltlessness
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...What absolute horror and senselessness is involved in the bombing of guiltless children-each a child of God, and of its mother and of our country. These are our children, bound to us in a multihued humanity...
With Camera Obscura. The Daniells landed in Calcutta in 1786. spent two years making sketches of the city for a series of aquatints. The pictures were published back in England with such success that the artists decided to penetrate into upper India on "guiltless spoliations'' of more picturesque material. Laden with tents, palanquins, great stocks of paper, canvas, paints, pencils, a camera obscura (for sketching views projected through a lens) and a "perambulator" (for measuring their mileage), the Daniells and a retinue of servants set out by boat to sketch Mother India. So adventurous and rewarding were their...
...events that seem to mirror their experience, but in fact are tantalizing opposites that contradict everything they know. In The Trial Kafka's hero asserts his innocence until echoes of his own voice convince him of his guilt. Life becomes absurd in a universe whose nature is that guiltless men shall be punished. Kafka never knew the totalitarian state that his intuition prefigured. But he knew the weight and layers of a hostile environment. He was brought up in the ghetto of the German-speaking Jews of Prague, surrounded by hostile Slavs who, in turn, were under the thumb...
...declaration of repentance. "We in the Church," says Küng, "are none of us guiltless of the world's unhappy state today, and the guilt of our fathers lies heavy upon us. It would be a truly Christian act if the Pope and the Council were to express this truth: Forgive us our sins! Forgive us our sins, and in particular our share in the sin of schism...
...acting, however, rescues the production. Jere Whiting is a superb Zeus; the crafty and malignant god is aware of his limited power over the free, guiltless Orestes, but exploits anyone else willing to fear him. Whiting's grace and style provide the only light touch in a production too full of screams and heavy gestures. Philip Kerr gives a solid performance as Orestes. He seems as unable as I to account for Orestes' sudden commitment, but he understands perfectly each stage in Orestes' development. Thanks largely to Kerr, the play is clear and powerful...