Word: sin
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...Monday night in the Sunday school room of a Los Angeles church, 19 children looked at pictures of snakes and toads-symbols not of sin but of science. The mostly Negro and Japanese kids, who had already put in a full school day, were starting a six-week course (tuition: $6) in "The Exciting World of Plants and Animals." For 75 minutes, they tackled all kinds of questions: What is a reptile? What does "coldblooded" mean? Flaunting new words from habitat to hibernate, the kids-second, third and fourth graders -will soon take up mammals, vertebrates, soil and plant propagation...
...issue you say that Alabama's Governor George C. Wallace denounced the lavish spending of his predecessor, John Patterson. During my interview with him, Governor Wallace did condemn lavish spending in strong terms, saying "It's criminal, it's a shame, it's a sin." But he was careful to avoid any specific reference by name to any of his predecessors...
...which college won the debate." He further pointed out that the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther "has announced that labor was not wedded to the Democratic Party. If that be true, we have been witnessing the world's most notorious case of living in sin...
...famous father. What's wrong with the picture is its script. Scenarist Henry Denker says some things that cannot be said too often: a life once lost can never be replaced; anyone who kills, kills part of himself; men are born with original virtue as well as original sin; peace is a moral as well as a political achievement. But sometimes he is carried away in his chiliastic exaltations. He really seems to believe, for instance, that people who get to know each other inevitably get to love each other. Silly...
Eventually Garrison ran up against a sin that was worse than drink: slavery. All his other concerns were sidelined while he concentrated on this one. Moving from newspaper to newspaper, he impudently courted libel suits with his inflammatory editorials against slaveowners and traders. Convicted in one case, he spent 49 days in jail. Urged by a fellow abolitionist to calm down, Garrison snapped: "I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt." In 1831 he launched his newspaper, The Liberator, which so infuriated the South that the Georgia legislature offered...