Word: backslider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judas of Fast's title story is a backslid leftist playwright named Harvey Crane. For an imminent production, he has raised $300,000 (a multiple of the 30 pieces of silver, and thus a big symbol). Then he is asked to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, whose chairman may be assumed to be Pontius Pilate. Hollywood is the fleshpots of imperial Rome. Villainous lawyers and venal politicians ("For a thousand dollars you can buy a Senator") gnash their teeth in the wings, and of course Judas Crane lets his old party pal have it (after...
...great dialogue in France has been between Faith and Reason, between Pascal, Bossuet and Chateaubriand on one hand, Descartes, Voltaire, Rousseau on the other. That dialogue animated the 27-year correspondence between Poet-Diplomat Paul Claudel, an unswerving Catholic who never doubted God, and André Gide. the backslid Protestant who never doubted the individual-a controversy generally conducted in scrupulously courteous and self-Centered letters, but frequently so agitated that one or the other broke off the correspondence. They ended by not speaking to each other...
...firm will take reformed alcoholics who have been on the wagon for three years and are vouched for by teetotaling friends. So far none of the reformed drinkers has backslid. There is always the danger that a policyholder will sneak a drink and get into an accident. But Treasurer Plymat figures that this has occurred no more than half a dozen times. When it happens, the company pays the liability claim and sorrowfully cancels the policy...
...they were playing international politics on the side. England's towering, blond Richard the Lionhearted stormed the supposedly impregnable fortress of Acre, and later fought at Jaffa with such bravery that when his horse fell, the admiring Sultan Saladin sent him two fresh chargers. But Richard himself had backslid so far as to bargain with the infidel, offering to marry his sister to the Sultan's brother in return for access to Jerusalem...
...other secondary sex characteristics might change too drastically. Only when all these conditions are met does Judge Turrentine order the operation (surgical removal of both testicles). It has been performed in 60 cases, and all the men were put on 15 years' probation. So far, none has backslid...