Word: sin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Government agents had kept watch on merchants' prices, had set rents at a modest $44 a month for a five-room house (including heat), had fended off crime, slums and commercialized sin. And Richlanders didn't even have any local taxes to pay: the Government made up the annual million-dollar deficit...
...When I tried to suggest to my more socially conscious American students that intellectual curiosity was not necessarily a form of sin or even frivolity and that a possible valid reason for pursuing this or that branch of knowledge was merely that they were interested in it.... I could see that I was thought to be expounding what is vaguely thought of as the 'European' point of view-at best something exotic and over-refined, at worst cynical and slightly sinister...
...plated hatchets, students quickly crowded around her, offering cigarettes and cigars, which she struck to the floor with indignation. When an uproarious mob had swept her into Sanders Theater, she attempted to speak, but shouts and singing drowned her out, and she finally abandoned Harvard to a life of sin...
Cadmus hopes against hope that the series will be sold as a group to decorate a church (price: $20,000). "I don't believe," he says wistfully, "that any of my paintings would encourage anyone to sin." As nightmare personifications of evil, the Sins were frightening enough; as pictures, they were merely unpleasant. It looked as if in this case Cadmus had sold his art for a mess of message...
Would Novelist (Lanny Budd) Sin clair be willing to stand in line all day to see a hit show...