Word: redeeming
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...able but seemingly perplexed cast can scarcely redeem itself, let alone the play. Ben Gazzara sets the acting tone of the evening with a performance of marmoreal monotony. Everyone labors strenuously over the point that Anouilh talkily belabors: to be robbed of the worst, or the best, past is not a theft but a gift. Anouilh further argues, without his later agile irony and cogent wit, that a man can indeed escape his past, which suggests that the young playwright still harbored at least one fond and vastly foolish illusion...
...rear seat of a Pennsylvania National Guard Super Constellation. As much as anyone, Scranton realized that the fiasco in Cleveland had damaged his political standing and that, regardless of how he felt about the party and its 1964 nominee, he had to take some action that would redeem his own political image. Just before the plane landed, he instructed his aides to arrange a meeting for the next night at the governor's mansion at Indiantown Gap, some 20 miles from Harrisburg...
...Said Johnson: "We are told that this is the age of the oversize organization, of big business, big unions and big government. Does the Government undermine our freedom by bringing electricity to the farm, by controlling floods, or by ending bank failures? Is freedom betrayed when in 1964 we redeem in full the pledge made a century ago by the Emancipation Proclamation? The truth is-far from crushing the individual-government at its best liberates him from the enslaving forces of his environment...
...Family. Again, the week was cyclonic. First, he set out to redeem himself in the eyes of dog fanciers, gently lifting one of his beagles by the ears and explaining to newsmen that it didn't hurt at all. Next, he went after the duffers' vote, replying to a reporter who asked him what his golf handicap was: "I don't have any handicap-I'm all handicap...
...occupied South." Vowed Egypt's President: "I swear to God to expel Britain from all parts of the Arab world. We shall shed blood and sacrifice souls, and we shall be as victorious as we were in Egypt and Yemen." For good measure, Nasser swore also to "redeem" Israel, which he called a "stooge" of Britain...