A few months before "Dutchman" was produced, Malcolm X had delivered his famous speech "God's Judgment of White America" (more commonly known as "The Chickens Come Home to Roost"), in which he derided the work of civil rights leaders and warned that the white majority would suffer disastrous consequences, rained down from the heavens, if it did not atone for the crimes of slavery.
Nonetheless, his self-consciousness does not atone for the arch disregard he displays for the very people in whose name he writes.
Jesus' crucifixion -- the death of the ultimate innocent victim -- shows once and for all that the sacrificial system is bankrupt, proving that violence does not atone for violence.
While the characters are well drawn, this doesn't atone for a lack of laughs.
An Oscar and a Mercedes and magnificent art collection didn't atone for the disregard that Inge felt in his last years, but it's too easy to paint him simply as a victim of Broadway's hit/flop syndrome.
I agree with President Bush that we must not forget — not forget and allow our president to use fear to lead! Brant Thomas Brooklyn, Jan . 13 , 2009 To the Editor: President Bush's defense of his pursuit of the war on terror is emblematic of his vigilance to hold steady to this misguided course, and for that, he does not atone.
It did not take Dollman long to atone for that error after the break when he finished off a counter-attack to score Exeter's first try of the afternoon.
I did an excellent job, huh?" But it didn't take the Bears' talented playmaker long in overtime to atone for his error.
And yet, his power to motivate still flickers: he's inspired this imperishable comedy set, after all, and if that doesn't quite atone for all the lying, cheating and bullying, it makes a decent start.
In Ms. Wickham's books, Becky's shopping is far from a harmless pastime, yet she doesn't have to atone for her sins in quite the way we expect.
It contains a good deal of flattery of the imperial family and much patriotism, for which the undoubted brilliance of the narrative passages does not altogether atone.
