Word: redeemability
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...camp commandant and the "Bitch of Buchenwald." purportedly made lampshades of human skin (she is serving a life term), SS Guardsman Gerhard Martin Sommer went so far in sadism that even his Nazi overlords were shocked. After an SS investigation they packed him off to the front "to redeem himself," and there he lost a leg and an arm. After first declaring him unfit for trial, West German authorities changed their minds when Sommer married a blonde nurse in 1956, fathered her child and casually applied for an increase in his veterans' pension. Sommer was haled into court...
...prose fails to redeem things. There is only one decent piece of fiction--"Mademoiselle Champignon", By Frederick Wakeman, a Harvard junior. Wakeman is sandwiched between two long short stories, the first a pallid Hemingway without irony, called "The Leedhes." It begins with twenty-one simple sentences, stumbles along under a clock of belabored symbolism, and never quite gets on its feet again. C. C. Abt returns in the other effort to tell a long tale inadequately...
...traditional attitude towards education was stated by Tutor Remington in his farewell address to the Class of 1707. "You know how you have spent your time; if idly, redeem the little that remains, for the eyes of your Parents are upon you; learning will be of use to you in every condition. See you carry it decently and as becometh you, without haughtiness. . . I shall rejoice at your Prosperity and Welfare...
...least two moments of moving lyricism: Schweik's apostrophe on war ("Who will go to the war when it comes?") and the Chorus of Wounded Soldiers ("Wait for the ragged soldiers") in the final scene. But overall, the music was too fragmented to be effective, or to redeem the curiously Panglossed-over view that marred the libretto : the apparent belief that Schweik's numskullery is a kind of nobility, and his doglike devotion the only logical defense against the depravity around...
Against Rome, Luther denied the church's administration over God's grace -either to grant it or withhold it. Not church, he held, but scripture is the true channel of grace-the Word and man's will lead to faith, and faith in Jesus Christ will redeem man from his sins. So sure did he feel of "justification by faith" that in his translation of the Bible he dared to insert the word "alone"' on his own authority. Against what he saw as a privileged caste of priests, he maintained "the priesthood of all believers...