Word: repentent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pennsylvania: "Doctors are going to have to bite the bullet and ask themselves if they really need all those tests." Physicians who routinely order nose-to-toes X rays or prescribe the latest and most costly antibiotic may be taken to task by department heads. Those who refuse to repent, warns A.H.A. President McMahon, may eventually lose their admitting privileges...
...struggling to be truthful," says Fierstein. "Not many people do. At the beginning we meet him in full drag, and at the end he's naked, so to speak. I've written a play in which homosexuals don't commit suicide at the end or repent their evil ways. The basic theme is self-respect, the realization that homosexuals can be just as moral as heterosexuals...
...found guilty of "towering and heinous" crimes and unceremoniously hustled out of court, defiantly screaming, "Down with revisionism!" Jiang Qing, now 69, Chairman Mao's headstrong widow and imperious ringleader of the leftist Gang of Four, was sentenced to death, but given two years in prison to repent...
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...