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...ultimate criticism of the overcomplicator is not that he fuzzes but that he fudges. If the cardinal sin of the oversimplifier is to inflate the trivial, the cardinal sin of the overcomplicator is to flatten the magnificent-or just pretend that it is not there. In the vocabulary of the '70s, there is an adequate language for fanaticism, but none for ordinary, quiet conviction. And there are almost no words left to express the concerns of honor, duty or piety...
...school every Saturday morning after Friday night games-60 miles away and 7 a. m., to boot), this co-captain Billy Morrison who was nicknamed "Porky" because he weighed 180 pounds in 6th grade, and who had worked as a bouncer at the Safari Beach Motel, which was the sin center for every spring vacation college-riot-party-guzzle ever since sixth grade (he threw out some 2nd string tackle from L. S. U. in 1963, the year they still had Paul Dietzel and the Chinese Bandits) yes, Patty, the sad-eyed girl, tough Southern dark-haired, drink away...
Good Send-Offs. Schuyler denizens are regarded with bemused contempt by more swinging Columbia students. "It's a place for anal Catholics. They want to preserve you from sin," scoffs one junior, a Catholic himself. As a group, the students are well above average in ability and politically quite conservative; they tend to shun radical activism. But each weekend some 20 residents take turns doing volunteer tutoring at an Opus Dei study center for younger students. Mostly, the residents' zest for service is inner-directed, toward caring for sick Schuylerites or helping dorm mates who have dropped behind...
...before Tom Wicker had tried to instill in us a sense of sin. (Sin, of course, not being part of our "modern" consciousness, it was easy to misunderstand his words. After all, how could one see in PL's self-righteousness the self-aggrandizement of American capitalism, how could the liberals be brought to see their complicity in bureaucratic deception, how could any of us purge ourselves of self-serving self-righteousness?) "I believe with Faulkner that the basis of all things is to be afraid," Wicker said. "If we believe that only success matters, then we have failed before...
...summer heat or winter cold, 16,000 acres of rich southeastern Arkansas land will always be tilled. This is the Cummins Prison Farm, where 200 convicts stoop in the vast cotton fields twelve hours a day, 51 days a week ? for zero pay. Such are the wages of sin in what may be the nation's most Calvinistic state...