Word: redeemed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans who controlled and benefitted from American slavocracy, have no moral obligation to, as it were, make the first move on that complicated road toward Christian forgiveness.... Those who perpetrate evil and human devastation on the scale of American slavocracy have a prior duty to assuage their wrongdoing, to redeem their transgression against the human souls of African-Americans...
...Gomes thinks that the first move toward forgiveness is blacks' moral burden. This is terribly wrong. Wrong because it fails to understand the reciprocity imperative. Those who perpetrate evil and human devastation on the scale of American slavocracy have a prior duty to assuage their wrongdoing, to redeem their transgression against the human souls of African-Americans...
...largest and riskiest foreign venture in this part of the world. But he feels bound by a promise, made during his first month in office, to back a peace agreement with U.S. soldiers. The subsequent years of seemingly incessant Balkan warfare made it unlikely Clinton would ever have to redeem that pledge, but remarkable diplomatic progress in recent months--much of it stemming from the efforts of Clinton's envoy, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke--has forced the President to confront his commitment. Last week the indefatigable Holbrooke was flitting between the Balkan capitals in an effort...
...believe that a hard exterior invariably hides a sweet, yearning, essentially decent nature. The alternate idea--that toughness disguises nothing but more toughness--may be the more accurate take on reality. But it's also an intolerable one, especially in the movies, the basic business of which is to redeem us, for a couple of hours now and then, from our darker suspicions about human nature...
...revolution, defiance of authority is taken as prima facie evidence of a political action. Yet as political scientist Sheldon Wolin reminds us, the proper province of the political is the shared regulation of our common life--not the willy-nilly pursuit of private passions and interests. Generation X cannot redeem its shameful record of political apathy with concerts and parties...