Word: sin
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...think there is a single element. If you would name one word, you would say sin and the temptations of the evil one, Satan. Because we are all tempted. I think if they had realized what was happening and turned to the Lord in the deepest part of their lives, they would not have fallen. Of course, when a person becomes what they were on television and becomes a celebrity, he faces a special kind of temptation, a special time of vulnerability because you become a target for anybody who is jealous or anybody who is disloyal in the organization...
That opening confrontation is not only dramatic but also, by erstwhile Soviet standards, outright dangerous. It portrays Lenin as a fallible man, not a mythic hero. It admits that the Bolsheviks were detested by many of the peasants they purported to help. And the play commits the once unpardonable sin of bringing Trotsky onstage -- showing him, in fact, as shrewder than Lenin. The theme is ideological purity vs. practical necessity, with pragmatism favored all the way. Compromise with the West is extolled as sensible; worldwide revolution is dismissed as a daydream...
...Buthelezi's biggest mistake was working with South Africa's whites while other black leaders went to prison or into exile, he never committed the bigger sin that the A.N.C. long feared: cutting a separate deal with whites in exchange for becoming the country's first black President. Buthelezi always insisted that Mandela be freed as a precondition to his joining in negotiations on South Africa's future...
Rossi has always taken all sorts of risks -- ideological, stylistic, careerist -- yet has never overindulged his own quirks and perversity, the besetting sin of creative risk takers. He avoids easy solutions of either the overdecorative or hyperlogical kind. Instead he seeks to create buildings that are sublime and humane, the riskiest -- and noblest -- challenge...
...past couple of years, NPR has been adding to its lineup of talk shows. Fresh Air, the most insightful and entertaining interview program on radio, features an eclectic mix of authors, artists and performers. Host Terry Gross has discussed with John Updike his love of faces ("a dermal sin") and explored comedian Martin Short's unusual adolescent fantasies. She got tough with Nancy Reagan over her memoirs but allowed actor Bob Hoskins (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) to wax lyrical about Laurence Olivier. Gross is just one of a notable number of female voices at NPR. Unlike the commercial networks...