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...could not have explored its unanswered moral questions with the subtlety it does without a performer like Paul Newman in the title role. It's easy to condemn sin: but it's not so easy to condemn the concrete, complex individual sinner. Newman makes Hud a man of charm and magnetism, a man difficult to dislike. Hud trades shamelessly on his personal attractiveness, but his shamelessness is a characteristic of his society as well as himself. Newman is letter-perfect, from his insolent walk to the mock-tough way he propositions the Bannon family maid. Even when Hud is silent...
Self-will is sin and much displeaseth Heaven...
Since it knows no sense of sin, and hence no reprisal for error, it is, at least by Western standards, passive, backward and neutral. Buddhism, says Theologian Paul Tillich, "gives no decisive motives for social transformation, and thus provides a nonpolitical opportunity for an invasion of Buddhist East Asia by the Communist quasi-religion with its hope for a transformed world." Although the Red Chinese are wooing the Buddhists everywhere, there is no real evidence so far that the Reds are using South Viet Nam's Buddhists, as the Diem government charges. On the other hand, Diem...
...Newsday put it in Alicia's obit last week, relations between father and son-in-law were "correct but never cordial." Father and daughter grew distant.* Sin In the Choir Loft. Alicia decided she wanted her own newspaper. Her husband agreed ("Everybody ought to have a job"), wisely judging that this would be an outlet for her enormous energies, and put up $70,000 to get the paper started. Her idea was to publish a suburban daily for Long Island, where she and Guggenheim lived in a 30-room Norman mansion in fashionable Sands Point. What...
...passage of days; their passionately sought goal is the finding of their own, true voice. "The further you go in writing the more alone you are," says Ernest Hemingway. "The time to work is shorter all the time, and if you waste it, you feel you have committed a sin." Anarchic Henry Miller notes that "the point I discovered is that the best technique is none at all," and argues, "A writer shouldn't think much." T. S. Eliot is in agreement about technique but cautions, "It's not wise to violate rules until you know...