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...grave miscarriage of justice. Americans now will never know the full truth about Watergate, or be assured, as they had a right to be, that there were not other, more fearful skeletons in the White House closets. Richard Nixon may well be suffering, but the American people have also suffered???and at Nixon's hands. Deceived, anguished, still too much in the dark about the conspiracy, they deserve some compassion too. Laments Father Eugene Kennedy: "Ford has closed a national wound without cleaning it first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Theology of Forgiveness | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...Doran ($2.00). Genius is sometimes dependable. Selma Lagerlof, ripe with the years and their laurels, can still spin a worthy tale of peasant simplicities and spectral horrors. Dreary and revengeful, General Lowenskold's ghost hovered near the priceless ring that had been stolen from his tomb. The unhappy thief suffered???his barns burned down, his wife was drowned?but he dared not confess looting a grave, mortal offense. In time, the jewel of ill wake passed with its spectral guardian through unwitting, but nevertheless harassed, owners to the very descendants of Lowenskold. Far from treating his heirs more kindly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pervading Sadness | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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