Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen paraphrases the parable of the Pharisee (Luke 18; 10-14), to dramatize the main point of his new book, published last week-Peace of Soul (Whittlesey House...
...major point at issue between Monsignor Sheen and much of modern psychiatry is the subject of guilt. The denial of personal sin, he holds, has done more to keep man from God, and to disintegrate society, than any other single factor. Psychiatrists are enemies of man, Sheen says, whenever they view the sense of guilt as an undesirable symptom and try to get rid of it by convincing the patient either 1) that he was not responsible for his sinful actions, or 2) that such actions are really healthy and normal...
From Copping's point of view, the whole case, which had been started on the complaint of a former Horsley Hall maintenance worker, was "preposterous." Though admitting that his pupils could visit in each other's bedrooms any time, he denied that at Horsley this led to sex relations, "not if they have been with us for more than a few weeks." Argued Copping's lawyer: "One of the most astonishing features in the case is that not a single parent has been called [by the prosecutor] to say they are dissatisfied with the way the children...
...this poem, as to others, Empson has provided notes to help the reader of good will. He says of the passage: "[The god is here] Noah or Neptune managing the sea. The point is to get puns for both violent disorder and building a structure . . . Cope-coping-stone and to manage, groynes-breakwaters, the meet of Gothic arches, the sex of the horses. The same kind of control is needed inside your head, a place also round and not well known (miner-"minor"), and it requires chiefly a clarifying connection with the outside world, e.g., by the arches...
...Breaking Point. In Manhattan, Morton Krouse filed suit for the return of 46 pennies he had dropped in subway vending machines since Sept. 28 without receiving a single peanut...