Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being forced to say them-notably in a pantomime of bare-fanged marriage-they are splendid. Lahr in a plane or at a stage door, Walker in a hash house or the Garden of Eden, also have their moments. But too often, though they make their lines brighter, they cannot make them bright. TV's Shelley Berman does nicely in a character-part telephone monologue, but falls flat as a straight man, and the rest of the show alternates dullness and noise when it does not combine them...
Mormon Howard contends that there is no reason why he cannot be both. He is still a Jew, he says, even though he practices very little orthodox Judaism. And the Mormons, who claim to be descended primarily from the tribe of Joseph, are themselves Israelites. "My tribe, the tribe of Judah, is so fraught with internal disorder that I merely decided to walk across the street and live with my in-laws-the tribe of Joseph. Mormonism is a continuation of Judaism; all Jews are Israelites, but not all Israelites are Jews. Mormons are Israelites, too. The Jews are always...
Contributor Giacomo Perico would have people develop a more acute sense of "highway sin." Perhaps the biggest highway sinner of all is the driver who takes chances and trusts to luck. If he has an accident, the church cannot absolve him until he has made good all damages, aided any victims and avoided perjury in court. If he gets himself killed, he has in a sense committed the sin of suicide. Father Perico would slow down drivers with a campaign of highway slogans. Samples: HURRY is ALMOST ALWAYS A SIGN OF PRIDE AND EGOISM, and HIGHWAY IMPATIENCE IS A SIGN...
Three fundamental modern attitudes toward sin, writes Father Ivo Cisar, are the pessimist's "I cannot avoid sin because it is inevitable," the optimist's "I cannot sin because sin is a myth," and the expert's "I can sin because sin is only weakness." The Christian's attitude: "I can avoid...
...about myself, and about the responsibilities any man has to his fellow men. I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception. The fact that I, too, was very much deceived cannot keep me from being the principal victim of that deception, because I was its principal symbol. There may be a kind of justice in that. I don't know. I do know, and I can say it proudly to this committee, that . . . I have taken a number of steps...