Word: mends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complexity of forgiveness involves the healing of the forgiver as well as the forgiven. By pardoning Mehmet Ali Agca, the Pope helped mend his own rent feelings. To this extent, forgiveness is both selfish and magnanimous...
Last Week--4-1. Season to Date--24-13, .649. If this column has offended, think but this, and all is mended, that you have but stumbled here, on some lines of Shakespeare. Gentles, do not reprehend. If you pardon, we will mend. What's done cannot be undone...
...must be probable. But if most people find it unhealthy to dwell in dreamland, very few people wish to believe in wholly dark visions either, not only because such visions run counter to human buoyancy, bul because one cannot stare indefinitely at broken objects without feeling an urge to mend them. History encompasses neither utopia nor hell. It squats like a bear and dares the world to move it No visions of light or darkness are necessary. Only a steady concentration on the world we made, and will make again-this year, next year and the year after...
What could become the opportunity for a contrived and inflated forum for Sibbald's opinions remains in the hands of the actors. Despite the magnitude of the life-death predicament. Tommy remains the simple, sincere kid trying--to the last--to mend fences. No fancy philosophical speeches, no existential angst--the simple words "Pop, I'm scared" are as effective as the handshake between Jim and Harry at a crucial and tender moment...
Even Hatcher, who feuded with Gary's business community for three terms, has been trying to mend fences. He recently signed a tax abatement bill to spur investment in plants, land and equipment, and has unproved relations with U.S. Steel, which has announced that Gary will become the center of its steel operation. "I could be elected as many times as I want without the support of the business community, but I can't govern effectively without that support," Hatcher says...