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CAROL CHANNING PRESENTS THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Pastimes like sloth, avarice and lust provide Carol Channing, Carol Burnett and Danny Thomas with material for songs and humor...
...movie fills its snowbound setting with an unworldly black-comic air appropriate to the author, whom Thomas Mann called "a religious humorist." Pompous officials deliver pronunciamentos even when there is no one left to listen. A girl tumbles into the surveyor's bed-and exhibits neither love nor lust. The sullen winter light reveals the endless decay of life...
BRUNO'S DREAM, by Iris Murdoch. Around the bed of a dying man, his kith and kin are stirred to bizarre combinations of love and lust. A metaphysical farce by a master of the form...
...mental care is the product of a 1,300-year-old religious legend. Ac cording to the story, an Irish Christian princess named Dympna fled from her widowed pagan father when he ordered her to marry him. He pursued her across the sea to Geel, where, insane with incestuous lust, he beheaded her. He instantly recovered his sanity, thereby es tablishing Dympna's reputation as a virgin martyr with powers to cure the mad. The date of her canonization is uncertain, but in the 13th century a chapel in Geel was named for her. Mentally afflicted pilgrims...
...used his sister's unlaundered brassiere, his windbreaker on a bus, and even his baseball glove while sitting in the balcony of a burlesque house. But the more he discharged, the greater became his guilt. It was a vicious cycle that led him into his psychological ghetto of lust and shame...