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...National Council of Alcoholism-predicated on the recognition that alcoholism is a disease rather than a moral flaw. In the continuing English debate on laws concerning prostitution, homosexuality and adultery, Ramsey holds that "morality is not best promoted by giving criminal status to every kind of grievous sin...
Domesticity irks Littlechap, and he has affairs with a Russian lady commissar, a German maid, and an American nightclub singer. There is less sin than smirk to these escapades. Playing the wife and all the other women in Littlechap's life as well, Anna Quayle is a droll dreadnought of a female. In the most waspishly comic number in the show. Ty pise he Deutsche, she sprays the audience with Hitlerian gutturals...
Every Sunday, Mrs. Baines atones for her sin. The three go to Tom's cemetery instead of church. "Crawl up the cross!" Winifred orders Mrs. Baines at the site of the grave. "Cry, you bitch, cry." Mrs. Baines obliges, while Wrinifred claws hysterically at the grave. But the rest of the week Mrs. Baines rules the household. She brutally orders her Milquetoast husband about, refuses to be in the same room with Winifred. A bad case of Calvinist repression, will-less Joshua cannot even bring himself to say "I want." His only solace is the Bible and the thought...
...councils. But the fathers may well formally note that the last word has not been said about the church's revealed truths, and they may attempt to give new dimension to such doctrines as papal infallibility, the "real presence" of Christ in the Eucharist, the nature of original sin...
...Sunday, at the climax of this rogation period, more than 200 clergymen will read to their congregations an admonition from // Chronicles: "If my people . . . shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." "Recreation & Renewal." Not all the prayers were offered for such solemn causes. In Atlanta's Morningside Presbyterian Church, Dr. Arthur Vann Gibson offered prayers of guidance for candidates in the Democratic primary. The sunburned congregation at Washington's Calvary Baptist Church bowed their...