Word: redeemingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Young & Searching. Kennedy's Administration is still young, still searching for the right formulas. Despite the failure of the Cuban invasion and the foolish uncertainty over the tractor deal, there will be other "next times'' for John Kennedy to redeem his reputation as a political leader of potential greatness. Yet if the pattern persists, there will be a clear and present danger that President Kennedy, surrounded as he is by a din of conflicting advisory voices, may lose the confidence necessary to guide the nation through such coming struggles as Berlin...
...measure, it was Gene Littler, 30, a sandy-haired, ham-handed ex-sailor from La Jolla, Calif. A reserved, coldly efficient man dubbed "Gene the Machine" and "Stone Face." he was runnerup in the 1954 Open. But then he went into a disastrous slump, and had yet to redeem his promise. Out of play with a rib injury early this year, he had not won a tournament, but he was slowly regaining his old style and steadily perfecting his putting...