Word: redeemability
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...sort of international monetary pawnbroker. When a nation finds its world business so bad that it does not have enough foreign currencies on hand to pay its international bills, it takes its own money to the Fund and exchanges it for the foreign currency it needs. But it must redeem its money within three to five years, and in the meantime is obliged to accept advice from I.M.F. experts on how to steer its economy out of trouble...
...absorbing as their own besetting fantasy. Fantasy is the reprisal of the powerless against a world they cannot change. The fantasy of the dying druggist is simply that he is not dying, even while he is. The fantasy of the judge is that he can get the Government to redeem Confederate money, $10 million of which he happens to have. Jester's fantasy revolves around the suicide of his father: if he can discover the cause of that, he feels, he will establish his own identity. Sherman is also an identity searcher, but his fantasy is that his mother...
...rides out, finds the bodies, forces the lieutenant to face the murder he has done. The shock snaps the young man out of his moral torpor. The captain then gives him a narrow but viable chance to redeem himself-which is more, as subsequently appears, than the lieutenant's father once gave the captain...
...indictment was written by Diário de Noticias Critic Henrique Oscar, who brushed aside the Method and the visiting production to go after Tennessee Williams himself and the psycheburger school of playwriting. "People bearing vices can be presented provided they suffer from them," wrote Oscar. "Their suffering may redeem them and arouse our understanding if not sympathy. The morbid world of Tennessee Williams has nothing of this. With him, aberration is presented complacently, with all the author's tenderness, as if it were the best thing in the world. It is sad to think that Williams represents...
...Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, married him, now lives in a dusty flat in an unfashionable part of Chelsea among half-dead flowers and half-dry socks. "I'm scruffy by nature,'' she admits, but she is also an expert actress whose look and gesture redeem her ingenuousness with a suggestion of bitchcraft. Her next role should give her ambivalences full play. In John Huston's Life of Freud, she will be the young, tormented Cecily, Subtile Sig's first patient...