As writers and readers as sinners and citizens our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop and something that you think is going to pop maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.