Word: sin
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...with Mayor Carl Stokes' unsuccessful political maneuvering, maneuvering which only heightened already existing anti-black and anti-Stokes sentiment in the city. For in his bid to gain nationwide political power by demonstrating his ability to weld a citywide coalition of blacks and liberal whites, Stokes committed the cardinal sin of permitting his political vision to become obscured by ego considerations. Stokes grossly overestimated his ability to manipulate the black vote, and his success during the primary in personally crushing his chief tormentors ultimately resulted in the defeat of his chosen successor...
...among you got no sin upon his hands...
...their political and social ills are shallow compared to the potential of their 'untapped depths of human understanding'; if you get a Negro and a cracker on the same side of a chase, they'll learn to respect each other. Think of Pauline Kael on Ship of Fools: "Original Sin Meets Mr. Fixit." As for recalcitrant Nazis or racists: Kramer only suggests slaughter...
...conduct during World War II? After Dutch treatment of Indonesians, what Dutchman can afford to throw a thermos bottle at Emperor Hirohito [Oct. 18]? The mentality behind such acts is the same as the arrogance that leads certain people to refer to policemen as "pigs." "He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone" (John...
...wife Goldie's breasts. In the title role, Lou Jacobi, who looks rather like a Levantine Walter Cronkite, is hilarious, wistful, bewildered and altogether human. Epstein has an affair with a sprightly widow. But, under Jehovah's unblinking eye, there is no sin without atonement...