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...President Nixon, speaking recently on amnesty [Feb. 12], said that it is a rule of life that those who make mistakes must pay for them. If we live in a world of stubbornness and insensitivity, then this means that they must pay with great hardship. If we live in one of gentility and compassion, then they must pay with their consciences. The question is: Which of the alternatives does the President prefer...
Chauvinist. For years Fay Weldon was anything but confident. She is a doctor's daughter who was brought up in New Zealand. After her parents' divorce, her mother brought her back to England and a period of "hardship and deprivation." She won a scholarship to St. Andrews University, where, oddly enough, she read economics while failing English exams, graduating to a job in advertising and eventual psychoanalysis. "Scarlet is a portrait of me when I was younger," she readily confesses, "a mess-oh yes, totally and completely. I messed up my life hopelessly until I met my husband...
...intolerance of advanced views and interference with academic liberty was bound to arise. Considering their popularity, and ability some outcry is not surprising but the tumult and shouting, and all the familiar paraphernalia of petitions, protest meetings, and probing committees designed to make them martyrs can only work intense hardship...
French experts often politely describe U.S. wine as pleasant but not great. Baron Philippe de Rothschild, millionaire oenophile and vintner (Château Mouton Rothschild), says: "To develop character, great wines must go through hardship. Snow. Drought. Storms. There must be suffering to produce it. In California everything is much too perfect. The soil is too rich. The weather is too good. The wine all comes out industrially uniform, like Coca-Cola." In 1966, the Paris chain store Prisunic put three lines of California wines on sale. Some 60,000 bottles gathered dust and derision for several months before being...
...worked as an assistant cabinetmaker but quit as soon as his first stories were published. A realist and an ironist, his prose is terse and direct, his manner as reticent and unflamboyant as Grass's is slashing and spectacular. The despair of war and its appalling hardship run through all his early work. For Böll, West Germany's postwar economic boom drowned out the moral voice of his country's guilty conscience. In 1959 he published Billiards at Half-Past Nine, a family chronicle in which the founding father is an architect who builds...