Word: sin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robinson Jeffers' verse. Tamar, of which the above are the opening lines, unrolls a tragedy of incest, Hebraic in origin (II Samuel xiii), Greek in treatment. Tamar Cauldwell, slender virgin in a rotting house, makes her brother her lover, takes another lover to shade the fruit of her sin. The ghost of old Caukler's incestuous sister?returning through the trances of a fat psychic aunt, Stella, and the gibbering of an idiot aunt, "poor Jinny" ?torments Tamar, tells her a curse is in her blood, inescapable, unclean. Tamar, fearless and fire-souled, refines her sin, lays the ghost...
...majority and the minority, too, is an adoption of the same policy for studies which is employed for play; "Athletics for all" must be paralleled by "Scholarship for all." Competition of brain must take its place by competition of brawn. Only so can the over emphasis on athletics, the sin of American colleges, be remedied...
...times, styles, and "lines" have changed, "A Professor" discards the fallacy of the status quo, and tries to see new conditions through new eyes. The indeconcies of the modern "young person" are indecent only to the middle aged. Youth has new standards of conduct and decency; he believes that "sin" has been stricken from the new code. "Goodness" and "Sin" have become phrases to the new generation, to which all life is a challenge to experience and expansion...
...Redeeming Sin. The cutting edge of Nazimova's personality is far too sharp for such crumbly material as this affords. She plays the Paris cocotte who had a good heart after all (cf. Kiki). Lou Tellegen, as the Apache, and a lot of fairly well faked Paris scenery are also thrown away...
...other day. ''He hasn't any right to give them the sort of story they don't expect from him. He must keep faith with them and do his best to see that his work never bores them. That is the writer's unforgiveable sin...