Word: sin
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...minor style, deservedly forgotten. Those tendriled doorknobs and flowing pedestals, that panoply of rare materials (zebrawood, pâte de verre, lapis lazuli, champlevé enamel), that air of hothouse elegance, glazed and nuanced-what did such things amount to but decoration? And what was decoration but a sin against the purity of modern...
...dirty lover, you dirty lover!" right-wing Republicans shouted at Nelson Rockefeller when he tried to address the 1964 G.O.P. Convention. Aside from challenging their favorite, Barry Goldwater, Rockefeller had committed the sin of divorcing his wife of 32 years and marrying another woman, also divorced...
...incipient nervous breakdown. Yet he realizes that the old arguments will no longer work- and that the new ones are limp and equivocating. "If this were 1935," he muses, "and Sheila were my father's younger sister, the whole discussion would have been conducted in the context of sin. I can talk about it only in the context of illness...
Nature of Sin. The basic problem, of course, is that there is no hard news. During strategy sessions in his sprawling ranch house with aides and advisers, Carter may be-probably is-making decisions that will vitally shape the course of the oncoming presidential campaign, scheduled to begin in earnest after Labor Day. But the security blanket of secrecy imposed on such decisions by Carter and his staff has been virtually total. Reporters have thus had to content themselves with scratching about for some interesting stories about the early days of Plains and the economic impact of Carter...
...than engine and gasoline and mason jars full of 145-proof alcohol, immediately ignited. People down in the valley whose bedrooms faced the hillside rose, wiping sleep from their eyes and wondering at the false dawn. The Baptist congregations got a cheap and predictable sermon on the wages of sin, and Bell's uncle got a beatendown truck, also cheap, from the cracker speedfreak's daddy...