Word: guiltlessness
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...justified when he declaimed to his sons in his best matinee voice: "Ingratitude, the vilest weed that grows." For one thing, he did not, as his sons charged, hire a quack to attend Mrs. O'Neill after Eugene's birth, and so "in all probability was guiltless" of his wife's addiction. Sheaffer concludes that Eugene's standing quarrel was really with his mother, because it was toward her that he felt his truly unatonable guilt: "Had he never been born, the wife and mother would have escaped her 'curse,' they all would have...
...under a rarely used U.S. law making it a crime to carry firearms across state lines while under indictment. In New Orleans federal court, a jury of three white men and nine women (six of them white) found him guilty for packing the gun back to New York but guiltless for taking it to New Orleans in the first place because he did not yet know he was indicted. When Brown, wearing rose-colored glasses, drew the maximum term, his attorneys announced an appeal...
...when Josephson deals with some noted figures who were touched by the grandeurs and miseries of the '30s. He has Edmund Wilson darkly prophesying that come the revolution, some intellectual enemy would "be done away with." Whittaker Chambers makes the scene as a malevolent monster who framed a guiltless Hiss, and John Dos Passes is treated with oblique sneers. Chambers and Dos Passos had been vehemently for, and later, vehemently against Communism, and this perhaps is what disturbs Josephson. No Comrade Quixote, he was happily embraced by the New Deal bureaucracy, and remained a puzzled neutral in the ideological...
...world and a part of its power problem. But self-discovery in the life of another happens and sometimes heals. The Confession says "all men fall under God's judgment. No one is more subject to that judgment than the man who assumes that he is guiltless before God or morally superior to another...
...tribute to the resilience of the play and the mastery of the playwright that, in the current revival. The Glass Menagerie somehow survives the guiltless and inadvertent miscasting of three of its four roles. The gentleman caller, expertly modeled by Pat Hingle, can be of the commonest clay, but the three family parts must be made of glass just like the toy menagerie...