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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn today's print edition of the New York Times, a letter to the editor from Jimmy Stewart's daughter
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In today's print edition of the New York Times, a letter to the editor from Jimmy Stewart's daughter (Original Post)
demmiblue
Aug 2020
OP
Hotler
(11,445 posts)1. Checkmate! nt
Laelth
(32,017 posts)2. That's clear and concise. Well done! k&r n/t
-Laelth
gademocrat7
(10,672 posts)3. K&R
The rethugs have no moral compass.
malaise
(269,186 posts)4. Love it
Would like to see her on Rachel
dalton99a
(81,599 posts)5. Kick
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)6. I hope that makes a small dent in the seniors who are still supporting Trump.
Thank you Ms. Harcourt.
Music Man
(1,184 posts)7. If Trump is anyone from "It's a Wonderful Life," it's Mr. Potter.
The banker.
Wounded Bear
(58,719 posts)9. Banker and ruthless real estate broker...
UTUSN
(70,744 posts)8. K&R for the bygone Repubs of Olde, STEWART. But actors read what others wrote for them.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,439 posts)10. A more apt comparison would be to Goethe's Faust who sold his soul
Last edited Thu Aug 27, 2020, 12:35 PM - Edit history (1)
..to the devil (mephistopheles) for riches, power [eerily describes trump, his ghoulish sycophants, family, gop] yet in the end Faust finds redemption--with this evil cabal no ser posible obtener perdon [may not be possible to obtain forgiveness.]
Faust makes a pact (an agreement) with Mephistopheles who promises him all his soul can wish for: fine living, gold, women and honour. Faust signs the pact with his blood. Faust uses magic in the hope that it will tell him everything about life. However, in the end Mephistopheles wins his bet.
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Ultimately, Faust goes to Heaven, for he loses only half of the bet. Angels, who arrive as messengers of divine mercy, declare at the end of Act V: "He who strives on and lives to strive/ Can earn redemption still" (V