Word: sin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...simple and transparently sincere" as the scriptural text you quote. (TIME, Dec. 26, 1927).* To illustrate my meaning, suppose that a man says with absolute simplicity and sincerity: "Do not smoke tobacco." In that statement there is no power; but there is power in the statement: "Go and sin no more." Yet I defy anyone to prove that one is any "simpler" or more "sincere" than the other. My meaning, as you may gather, is that statements of the kind praised by you derive power only from the person by whom or the circumstance in which they are uttered. Example...
PORGY-Negro song and dance, sin and sunshine along the docks of Charleston...
...Woman and Sin. Under this unpretentious title, John Gilbert, in the role of a cub-reporter, pursues Sin as ably impersonated by Jeanne Eagels. The climax of his pursuit occurs when he murders the source of the demimondaine's income; she perjures herself to avoid scandal; and then, because she loves the cub-reporter, confesses her paying to save his life. The able direction of one-time newspaperman Monta Bell, the able performances of Actor Gilbert and of Actress Eagels, make it possible to forgive certain weaknesses in the story. The weakness of the conclusion in which Mr. Gilbert...
Just before the first rays of the sun appeared in the east he was divested of his U. S. bullet-proof waistcoat and led out to meet his death. He presented a strange appearance -this onetime truculent "El Hombre Sin Vicios" ("The Man Without Vices"). Gone were his Kaiser-like mustachios-he had shaved them off to prevent recognition. His cheeks were sunken and his clothes literally hung on his torso; for in his hunted life in the mountains he had suffered the privations of cold and hunger...
...personal conferences on spiritual problems', 'the Protestant confessional'. The name makes little difference. What does matter is the renewed awareness in the churches that they are in danger of surrendering to the psychoanalyst that vast field of human need where the con fession of sin and spiritual misery is met with sympathetic and intelligent treatment...