Brooks Atkinson Quotes
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
Atkinson, Brooks. Once Around the Sun. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1951, p. 377.
This statement was like many of the Yogi Berra quotations, with few understanding the point Bush was trying to make.
For centuries whites had dominated and abused the Blacks of South Africa. When the Black majority finally gained power, there were many calls for retribution and justice. However, under Mandela’s influence, South Africa made one of the most successful transitions of power to the majority who had been oppressed. The concentration on the future made South Africa the most successful country in Africa and a model for the world. See {633690} for another of his implementing statements of this principle.
He was one of the few Irish clerics who urged a reproachment between Catholics and Protestants.
Bush, one of America’s least articulate Presidents was trying to convey that his dirty tricks and attacks on his opponent, John McCain, was over, and ended up with this comical tautology.
Justin Brooks Atkinson was an American theatre critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1922 to 1960. In his obituary, the Times called him "the theater's most influential reviewer of his time." Atkinson became a Times theater critic in the 1920s and his reviews became very influential. He insisted on leaving the drama desk during World War II to report on the war, he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his work as the Moscow correspondent for the Times. He returned to the theater beat in the late 1940s, until his retirement in 1960.
