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...DeMille's virtues and few of his faults. Despite a mawkish prologue ("Human dignity perished on the altar of Idolatry"), the mating of liberty with monotheism is less corny than in The Ten Commandments. The vitality of villainy provides the film's greatest fascinations; DeMille stood foursquare against sin but always loved the chance to show just how much sin he was against...
...entering the race, his hippie hair, his pro-civil rights proclivities, his vendetta against Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa, his indentureship in the '50s under Joe McCarthy and myriad unspecified acts of vindictiveness, Kennedy seems to many to appeal to "the darker impulses of the American spirit" -a sin that he was unwise enough to ascribe to Lyndon Johnson last month. Said a Los Angeles housewife last week, after switching her voting registration to Democrat so that she could vote against Bobby: "He is dogmatic, ruthless, dangerous, and as phony as an $18 bill...
...purest "oldtime" form, the music echoed the authentic Scotch-Irish folk heritage of the area. This is the style that has been passed from generation to generation on isolated farms where music is about the only recreation that doesn't smack of sin. The group that won the $25 prize as the best oldtime band, the Blue Ridge Boys of Winston-Salem, N.C., learned all of their music "from relatives" and are duly modest about their accomplishments: asked why he though the band had won, Banjoist Paul Idol replied Well, we all started on a tune exactly...
...Points. The crisis has passed, or, more precisely, evolved, into a concern over the complexities of family life. "There's been a lot of sin committed in the name of the family," he says. "Sins on the children, sins of husband and wife to each other. I feel about the family as I do about the middle class, that it's somehow fiercer in there than has been assumed...
...Sin enters by dread, but sin in turn brought dread with it," wrote Kierkegaard, describing the guilt that floods the dark night of the soul. Another Scandinavian, Ingmar Bergman, plays out that quasi-religious concept by examining one soul in the blackness just before dawn-the Hour of the Wolf, "when nightmares are most palpable,' when ghosts and demons hold sway...