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...entirely possible to defend Dow Chemical's right to destroy its corporate reputation by sending its agents to the Harvard Yard--and I would agree with you on this--without implying, as your letters do, that the protection of suppliers of napalm is a virtuous cause and that all sin lies with those who, in a groping and adolescent way are, trying to preserve their university from what they regard as complicity in a disastrous natonal course...
...PYRAMID, by William Golding. In a seemingly simple tale about a bright lad who sacrifices everything to escape his low origins, Author Golding explores his favorite theme, which holds that original sin is an anthropological fact...
Finding the Choice. Christian moralists readily use the insights of psychiatry in trying to determine what constitutes sin and sinfulness. An example is psychiatric discoveries about the ways in which man's subconscious drives and fears limit his freedom of choice. "We cannot take away the fact that man is capable of sin and has free choice between good and evil," says the Rev. John Lind, assistant pastor of New York City's Roman Catholic Church of the Resurrection-Ascension. "The great theological problem is to determine what our free choices are. With the help of psychology...
Sexuality is a specific area of moral concern in which psychiatry has helped religion redefine its concept of sin. In the past, Christian moralists almost unanimously regarded fornication as an unqualified evil. Now, some churchmen are inclined to admit that it may be morally permissible, in those rare situations when it satisfies a true need between two adults who fulfill each other. Says Dr. Edward Craig Hobbs of the Episcopal Church Divinity School of the Pacific: "The whole matter of sexual morality is now subject to a different understanding that comes from psychiatry and ultimately from Freud." The Rev. Richard...
...COMEDIANS. Graham Greene's Haitian purgatory has an excellent cast (Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Ford) and enough transcendent drama to absolve it from its most glaring sin: at two hours and 40 minutes, it is too long...