Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Graves's Iliad will endure as a satire, it is certainly the most charming translation in English since Pope's, and may also be the best. At the end of his preface, Graves promises to pour a libation of red wine "to Homer's shade, imploring pardon for the many small liberties I have taken." It seems likely that he will get his pardon from Homer, and also, as he forsees, a squall of protest from Homer's loyal grammarians...
...tradition demanded that they follow it in pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime or else be obliged to do so after death, advancing only one coffin-length each year. In the 10th century, Benedictine monks built a monastery just outside the town, and the pilgrimage turned into a "pardon walk" around the monastery's land-hence the word Tromenie, which is Breton for "tour of the refuge...
...keep your hand on your wallet." Under the fourth general amnesty since 1945, signed into law by President Giovanni Gronchi last week, some 15,000 convicted criminals-and perhaps as many as 100,000 offenders still unsentenced-will walk scot-free out of Italy's jails. Unlike a pardon, which wipes out the penalty, an amnesty expunges the crime. The categories of criminals admitted to amnesty last week included libelers, common thieves, tax evaders, those who have offered "offenses to the head of the state," first offenders serving no more than two years, pornographers, and-most controversially-Communists...
...PERSECUTED-"We wish to give offense to none; nay, we desire freely to pardon all and to beg this of God. But our conception of our holy office demands that we do all we can to protect the rights of our brethren and children, that we persist in our asking that freedom of law ... be granted, as it ought, to everyone ... If the rights of God and religion have been ignored or trampled on, the very foundations of human society, sooner or later, collapse into ruin...
Citing precedents for the bill, Schlesinger mentioned the Legislature's posthumous pardon of victims of the Salem witch trials, and a 1939 bill which reformed appelate procedures in the Massachusetts courts. "If this bill had been in effect in 1927, Sacco and Vanzetti might have been saved...