Word: condemnations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Laborite M.P. Hector McNeil thought that "if Jesus came back, He would see much to admire and much that would distress Him, and, on balance. I humbly suspect more to applaud than to condemn. For man improves. Compassion . . . has grown more lively in our country . . . the young-and no less the hungry, the enfeebled and the aged-have become a high charge on our national effort...
...Dean James Pike's recent defense of birth control, that "the Episcopal Church has taken a somewhat uncompromising view of the matter of depriving others of life - which is the express purpose of birth control" A resolution of the 1930 Anglican Lambeth Conference says in part: ". . . We cannot condemn the use of scientific methods to prevent conception, which are thoughtfully and conscientiously adopted." I should also like to challenge another statement which deprecates the sex act in marriage as a "sacrament of unity" by quoting the authority of the Book of Common Prayer, which says marriage ". . . is an honourable...
...TIME, Feb. 28), talked up a Geneva-style conference at which the West could trade German rearmament for German reunification-assuming that the Russians might be so minded. He made much ado about "automatic consequences," suggesting casuistically that a vote in the West German Bundestag for rearmament would "automatically" condemn 18 million East Germans to perpetual Soviet tyranny...
...Jumping Joe" McCarthy? . . . Though I hate him ... I must admit he has finally put some guts-in our Senate . . . by forcing it to condemn him. In his negative way, Joe has done the world more good than the Little Lord Fauntleroys who are horrified...
...blames himself, for their unhappiness. A crime against Heaven, added to his crimes against men, seals Scobie's fate. He takes Communion, while in mortal sin, in order to hide that mortal sin from his wife. With the despair of the damned, he determines to commit suicide. "God, condemn me!" he cries. "But give rest unto them!" The ironies that ricocheted so savagely through Greene's final pages are all forsaken in the film for a pitifully sleazy out; just as Scobie is about to do himself in, the job is done for him by some brawling blacks...