Word: sin
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...mythological Orpheus committed the grievous sin of loving too much. In the face of death and disbelief, the great musician's undying affection for his muse proved to be her demise. Williams' modern incarnation of the doomed Eurydice is Lady Torrence (played by Melanie Martinez), the proud daughter of a "wop bootlegger who burned to death in his orchard...
...music on Keineg's debut album, O Seasons O Castles, is folksy and hypnotic, the lyrics both heartfelt and cerebral. The title is from an Arthur Rimbaud poem that reads, "O Seasons, O Castles/ What soul is without sin!" Several songs on the CD explore sin, including Franklin, which is about a woman breaking away from an abusive partner. "I'm going to find me a good man who don't drink/ who don't shout/ who don't throw my prized possessions about," sings Keineg, who has a throaty alto with just a touch of mysterious smokiness...
...right, maybe camels were smaller then and needles a lot more wide eyed. But the message is reiterated in passage after passage, and not only in the politically suspect New Testament, where socialists have always found solace. Ezekiel explains that the Sodomites' sin was that they had "pride, fullness of bread and abundance of idleness" but did not "strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" -- quite apart from any "abomination" (16: 49-50). Amos addresses the rich people of Bashan, who "oppress the poor, which crush the needy," thundering that "the days shall come upon you, that he will...
...states. And what remains in the mind from this book is an unsparing depiction of the moral and emotional nightmares of Vietnam, made more unsparing by O'Brien's rigorous refusal to write them off as the craziness of the moment. "This was not madness, Sorcerer understood. This was sin." Lake looks head-on at those unfashionable old friends, morality and evil...
Precisely when and how Constant came into the picture is unclear. He is said to have lectured on "liberation theology" -- Aristide's philosophy -- at a SIN school and might well have come to the agency's attention then. Most accounts agree, however, that he was one of the supporters of the military regime that the CIA turned to for information after the coup against Aristide. That he stayed on the payroll after helping organize FRAPH is more difficult to justify. Though Constant represented FRAPH to U.S. reporters as a kind of Salvation Army doing work among the poor...