Word: redeemability
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...introduces into his description of the Waipori millennium the exercise books of a retarded girl named Milly Galbraith. Hers is the traditional tale told by the classic simpleton that unwittingly speaks the truth. As Milly wonders about her fate under the H.D.A., her naive narration and bad spelling redeem words from the neutrality of numbers...
...Supreme Court, held that a work is obscene only it meets three criteria simultaneously 1) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest; 2) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards; and 3) the material is "utterly" without redeeming social value. To what extent do worthy parts redeem the whole? In Curious the explicit sexual adventures of the films heroine, Lena, are only part of her activities; much of the movie is devoted to her episodic exploration of violence, indifference and social inequality in her society...
...liable to betray himself as a soldier, that the hero in love is at war with himself. It gives pause when these themes are charitably considered in light of the seeming abyss between war and love throughout history. Shakespeare's original theme is that love can also serve to redeem the fallen soldier as it humanizes him. The power of Antony's death seene, as well as Cleopatra's, is provided by the knowledge that command depends on devotion as well as self-esteem. In Troilus and Cressida, a centrifugal labor on love and honor, the rejection of the mundane...
Some books which are just as pointless as On His Own redeem themselves through the quality of their writing. But the writing in On His Own is too mediocre to provide salvation. In its description of Kennedy this book never goes beyond the vocabulary already overused in the mass media and in the books of other New Frontiersmen. Its attempts at eloquence end in cliches. Amidst the plodding style of this narrative, passage quoted from Kenndy's speeches seem like rare oases...
...good deal of local unpopularity, was seized without compensation. Last June W.R. Grace's rich sugar estates were expropriated; the government has announced that the company will be compensated, but the amount has not yet been fixed and most of it will be paid in hard-to-redeem bonds. In January the junta decreed that the nation's mainly U.S.-owned auto industry-13 car and truck assembly plants worth $25 million- must be "Peruvianized." By next year the companies must sell 51% of their stock to local citizens...