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...visiting businessman has plenty of time for business. By edict of Police Superintendent Orlando Wilson, the once racy North Side is as dead as Gomorrah. Calumet City, thanks to another crusading police chief, has only darkened flesh parlors to show for its long career as Chicago's sin suburb. Even Al Capone's Cicero has quieted down. No matter. If he insists on drinking life to the lees, the conventioneer can still find paradise enow an hour away in Gary or East Chicago, across the state line in Indiana's gamy, grimy Lake County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indiana: The Abandoned County | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

DEAR JOHN. A sex-starved seagoing man (Jarl Kulle) spends a weekend with a waitress (Christina Schollin) whose attractions turn out to be more than sin-deep in Swedish Director Lars Magnus Lindgren's tender, funny and lusty study of a love match in the making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Apr. 15, 1966 | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...Turns, the doyenne of daily dramas, where the actors still say "You mean . . ." and "It can't be true!" and regularly face death, disease, violence, alcoholism, attempted suicide, amnesia, rape, malpractice and child-custody suits. The viewer can be forgiven if she becomes a victim of another deadly sin-pride-at having a family who, no matter what their vagaries, must seem to be the epitome of middle-class morality compared to the atrocity-ridden citizens of World, Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life, and Guiding Light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Seven Deadly Daytime Sins | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...urged to shun the pleasure of life if they would serve God, and to avoid any false step or suffer everlasting punishment in hell. It did little to establish the credibility of this "God" that medieval theologians categorized his qualities as confidently as they spelled out different kinds of sin, and that churchmen spoke about him as if they had just finished having lunch with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theology: Toward a Hidden God | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...Quick One with Darwin. Tahiti existed m the imagination of Europe before the Europeans sighted its shores Ever since the decline of the notion of original sin, philosophers of the Enlightenment had tried to account for man's lamentable condition. The state of nature remained an abstraction until Tahiti was discovered; it seemed to be just what the doctors of philosophy had ordered. Here was proof that the Noble Savage did exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When the Capsule Broke | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

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