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Tied in with the world's moral disintegration is the dissolution of the South and the Southern gentleman, a major theme in all Percy's novels. Consequently, the Southern lady has disappeared and part of Lancelot's reconstructed moral order assigns an inordinate meaning to sexual sin...
...believe, Director Roman Polanski (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown) ranks as a startling character. He was the husband of Manson Murder Victim Sharon Tate, and his life has had elements as dark and quixotic as his art. He is now working on a movie version of The First Deadly Sin, which portrays a business executive obsessed with sexual perversion and homicide. Thus it was hardly theater of the absurd that Polanski, 43, should find himself arrested in the lobby of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel and accused of raping a 13-year-old "aspiring actress," a charge he emphatically denies...
...Long would not hear of it. He growled, "Nowadays it's tough enough to get people married without putting bigger taxes on it." He pushed through a plan that will reduce, though not eliminate the marriage penalty. That should please Carter, who has urged people "living in sin" to get married...
...loveth not the transgressors." Another was particularly effective: "And let not the hatred of some people in shutting you out of the Sacred Mosque lead you into transgression and hostility on your part; help ye one another in righteousness and piety, but judge ye not one another in sin and rancor." Says Yaqub-Khan: "The sentiments in that passage provided the central theme pervading all the talks...
Jones refuses to express any bitterness about Grambling's second-string status, even joking over the years-for the benefit of white legislators-that they should support Grambling "because if you take out the r, then it's a sin." Nor does he complain about the competition of formerly all-white colleges for star black athletes. Says Jones: "They can get all the boys they want, but many were not gotten at all before." For Grambling, integration has meant an influx of white teachers, now about 30% of the faculty, but few white students (only about...