Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree-it is self-important, And it is a club. And it's also produced eight hundred and eleven editions during my undergraduate career. Multiply that by about ten pages apiece, and you'll see it's a club with a difference, and perhaps you'll even pardon the occasional mistake. At any rate, the pride of the craftsman equals the pride of the scholar, even if it's not as common at Harvard. "We've never missed a morning."-Pat Sorrento. The Crimson's shot foreman, has repeated more than once. For four years I've been proud...
Hersh also told the receptive audience that former President Gerald R. Ford's pardon of Nixon was part of a "commitment" the two had agreed upon before Nixon resigned...
...lure law-abiding visitors to Leavenworth. A local businessman has offered to donate ten acres of land, and town officials are busily devising schemes to raise funds to build the library. The former President has not been consulted, but the Chicago Sun Times, begging his pardon, is keen on the idea. Editorialized the paper: "You know, we had a feeling he'd make it there some...
...have been lost in this translation by Robert Chapman, professor of English Literature. Hochepaix, for instance, tries to explain the pronunciation of the last syllable of his name in this witty exchange: "Pay. Not Pee. P-A-I-X." To which Ventroux replies, smugly. "Oh, I beg your pardon. Pay, not Pee. Unintentional error, of course." Similarly, Clarisse doesn't understand why Ventroux is upset that Hochepaix called him a "pretty pair of sights." Ventroux informs her that the term was "party parasite." Jokes like these may have worked better in French; they do not stack up to the rest...
...confused and essentially stupid doctrine. W.H. Auden's memorable lines about W.B. Yeats describe a sweet metaphysical arc: "Time that is intolerant/ Of the brave and innocent/ And indifferent in a week/ To a beautiful physique/ Worships language and forgives/ Everyone by whom it lives." Yes: time grants pardon. But the law is not in the trade of metaphysics; the law's only hope of survival lies precisely in its struggle to be impartial. The Mailer doctrine suggests that somehow the law should set up separate standards for artists. There are grotesque possibilities here. Who judges the literary...