Word: pardons
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...Pardon my contempt. As the only openly gay person at the Yale graduate school, I paid the career price for my pre-Stonewall candor. Where were all these lesbians when it mattered? They stayed in the closet until tenure--and other people' sacrifices--made it safe to come out and claim the spoils. The then-bizarre themes of my dissertation, Sexual Personae--homosexuality, transvestism, transsexualism, sadomasochism--also ensured that no research university would hire me. I am only one of incalculable numbers of members of my generation whose fidelity to Sixties principles led to their exclusion from the establishment. That...
Under Glass Correspondent: Pardon me, but would you, per chance, happen to be aware of the underlying logic that dictates Harvard's assorted libraries' borrowing and lending policies...
Even at home, Gene has seldom been far from the major events of the day. From the pardon of Richard Nixon to the raid on Entebbe to the crackdown on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, editors have summoned Gene to the office at all hours on weekends to help remake the magazine. "He's been around so long and in so many different incarnations that Gene always knew how to get things done," says Karsten Prager, the managing editor of TIME International. "He's like a rock." We're glad our former copyboy decided to stay and stay...
...national treasure (who then had trouble finding anything to write about). White places the beginning of this dry spell in 1949. That was the year the French president, in response to a letter written by Sartre and Cocteau and signed by a slew of intellectuals, issued Genet a pardon for a possible life sentence. The pardon represented an official endorsement by the French government, its reigning man of letters and its most famous philosopher; it was a terrible blow to Genet the outsider, one that kept him from writing seriously for another fifteen years. "Canonized, pardoned, consecrated, assimilated, Genet...
...Administration is clearly reeling. The impressive litany of proposals Clinton recited last week (including new education, environmental, ethics and welfare policies) are all works in progress. The few concrete results to date are minor, and the public knows the difference. With the exception of Gerald Ford (whose pardon of Richard Nixon rocked the nation), Clinton has a disapproval rating higher than that of any other President at a comparable point. New polls show voters prefer lower taxes and fewer services over higher taxes for more services, a rebuke to the essence of Clinton's program. Perhaps most distressing...