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Luckily, Rausch edits most of the didactic verse--such as Auden's version of T.S. Eliot's conclusion to The Wasteland (Auden: "Repent... Unite ... Act"), or his awkwardly Marxist closing line: "To each his need, from each his power." Rauch leaves in those speeches pointing to the concerns more relevant to his summer audience: "Take sex, for instance... Sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's said, but it's always hanging about like a smell of drains...
...will have to repent in our generation not merely for the hateful actions and words of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people...
From that nadir, Crimson pitcher. Ellen "Sprout" Jakovic took over Although her teammates committed an abysmal six errors behind her, which resulted in eight unearned runs, the fast Jakovic pitched a gutsy game, closing the door on the Bears for the final four innings and allowing the Crimson to repent for its mistakes. With the score tied at 9-to-9 in the fifth the Bears put runners on first and third with two out. The game was in the balance, and Jakovic fought the Bears designated hitter to a 3 and 2 count before walking her. Then with...
...exemptions. He supports equal rights for women but refuses to back the Equal Rights Amendment. On the subject of homosexuality, he is outspoken. "Homosexuality is not a civil rights issue," he says. "They have chosen a way of life and have to accept the consequences." His advice? "They can repent like other sinners...
...that anyone should. All the prudence involved in not writing letters can't hold a candle to the brave helplessness of putting oneself on the line. "I have concealed nothing from you," Johnson closed a letter to a woman he loved, "nor do I expect ever to repent of having thus opened my heart." -By Roger Rosenblatt