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  • r  showing remorse

  • Last month Archibald MacLeish penitently claimed that he and other writers of his generation (Ernest Hemingway, et al.
  • When Fels recently reread it (in search of a description of his own indescribable girls' school), he shuddered "for my sins," penitently wrote a spoofing exegesis in the .
  • More important, he appealed penitently to the Jews who had been especially disturbed by his previous oratory.

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