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...Vientiane, once flourishing centers of sin-like the notorious White Rose Café-have been closed down by the puritanical Pathet Lao government. On Rue Setthathirath more than half the shops are shuttered tightly, though not the Large Soviet cultural center on the corner. Rusting hulks of cars and trucks lie at the side of the roads leading out of the city. Even the front garden of the old Royal Palace has fallen into a state of near total disrepair-the King was sent to a reeducation camp...
...Four years ago, he and Connie sketched out the whole of his Red Headed Stranger LP during an all-night drive from Colorado to Texas, fitting new songs side by side with traditional tunes and country standards to form a unified narrative of love and death, sin and redemption...
TERRORISM After terrorists kidnaped Christian Demo cratic Leader Aldo Moro earlier this year, Cardinal Luciani told a newspaper that "the negation of God" was at the root of social distress. "Tear God out of man's heart? Tell children that sin is only a fairy tale invented by their grandparents to make them behave? Print school textbooks that ignore God and deride authority? Then don't become amazed at what's happening. It's already an effort for those who believe in God to remain honest. Just imagine how it is if one no longer believes...
...When he was a poor young man, Henchard got drunk at a country fair and sold his wife and daughter to a sailor for five guineas. Eighteen years later he is a rich hay and wheat merchant, as well as the mayor of Casterbridge. He is remorseful for his sin, however, and when his wife turns up, the sailor having been lost at sea, he tries to right the old wrong by marrying her again and adopting his own daughter...
Montaillou is rich in flawed humanity. Little Grazide Lizier, the 14-year-old who happily yielded to her cousin the priest, testifies: "In those days it pleased me, and it pleased the priest ... and so I did not think I was sinning, and neither did he. But now, with him, it does not please me any more. And so now, if he knew me carnally, I should think it a sin...