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...have never met, but I have fond memories of hearing you speak during my freshman orientation week and of the joke you told about being tried of sin. I hope you remember the one I mean. It was about a church with a sign in front of it that read. "Tired of sin? Come in!" Then you told us that some sneaky Harvard faculty member painted the following line baneath it. "If not, go to work for the Nixon administration." I'll never be as good a story-teller as you, but I hope I didn't week up your...
...random on the floor, tangled webs of rubbery cord hanging from the ceiling like a three-dimensional version of Pollock drips-is partly an effort to give sculpture the fluidity of abstract-expressionist painting and partly a direct celebration of incongruity. Decoration, she believed, was "the only art sin." It was not a peccadillo she ever committed: ugly, difficult and raw though Eva Hesse's work is, it constitutes one of the most forthright statements in 1960s art. ·Robert Hughes
...side-until, at last, they forget why they came in. For Christmas and the New Year, then, let this be their gift: to lose their jaded tastes, their ennui with ordinary extravagance and to gain an appetite for value as well as price. If they must commit the venal sin of self-indulgence, let them learn to do it in style...
...very end, in a scene like the one in which he gets Chief Bromden (Frank Savino) to talk, does the underlying seriousness become apparent. Faced with the prospect of remaining "committed" for life, he keeps up his laughter, if desperately, finally realizing that "you gotta laugh, especially when things sin't so funny...
...BISHOP has denounced it for the sin of pride. The new director of the FBI is urging it on his top aides, explaining that he wants "their spirits to soar." A group of alcoholics in Ypsilanti, Mich., uses it to inspire members to recovery. The Christian Science Monitor has refused to carry ads for it. A manufacturer has declared that it encourages "ambition, attainment, leadership, exploration, excellence, growth, goals, imagination, courage, determination, loyalty, sharing, teaching, involvement and concern"?not to mention more aggressive salesmanship. Critics have variously classified it as Hinduism and Scientology. Recently, a columnist, dismissing the whole...