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...humanity of the race, which in the space age remains as susceptible to greed and graft and the curse of Cain as it has been since the dawn of time. For the weak, temptation is ever at hand; for the brave, violence waits patiently in ambush. Beyond private sin, however, those who misuse public trust do a special evil. West Virginia and New Jersey seem to justify the theory of democracy that argues not that the people are virtuous enough to rule themselves, but rather that no man is ever virtuous enough to be allowed for long to rule others...
...movie he has easily seduced a girl who was a former patient of his. The Cardinal Sin. She has lost her job and apartment because of the demands he has made on her. She begs him to take care of her. He is of course unable to do so. The psychiatrist has refused to be responsible for his patients, his mistresses. his wife, and finally for his own actions. His actions and his consciousness have become disattached. He isn't alone in his Coming Apart...
...tradition of evangelistic Christianity, the confession of sin in repentance is the principal spiritual transaction during revival preaching and hence the principal mark of the ongoing Christian life, even as the Lord's Prayer invites us to daily repentance and forgiveness of sins. It is an irony of what can be called White House religion that the chief spiritual advisor of both President Johnson and President Nixon is precisely our foremost preacher of repentance. Repentance is a religious term which, when cast back into its original Greek sense in the New Testament, means change of mind...
...rule: the safest saint is a dead saint -Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Frantz Fanon. Be particularly careful about bringing up Herbert Marcuse. His importance, Carl Oglesby warns, may have been "badly overstated." "He is not the kind of writer whose books explode one out of the study." (The cardinal sin of the New Left writer is to keep his readers off the streets...
...hero with the numbstruck charm of a tarnished cherub. Ben believes totally in America's favorite myth: the up-from-nothing success story. So believing, he becomes living proof of that other American truism: there's a sucker born every minute. Ben runs away to Chicago, sin city, carnival to a million peculators in wheat, meat and railways. Pickpockets, exposure and starvation nearly do him in until the boy comes under the wing of a municipal madam named Queen Lil (Melina Mercouri). Lil's most valued friend is one Francis X. Sullivan (Brian Keith), a gruff newspaperman...