Word: sin
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...message of forgiveness. The guilt of past folly still burdens her. And it is certain that the children of this emotionally disturbed and strained household will be damaged in their personal development. Claire is imprisoned in a guilt complex and extreme self-centeredness, which is itself a terrible sin...
...similarly sheathed, into various positions-rump to rump, shoulder to shoulder-until at last she twined her body around his left leg and sinuously slid up to a standing embrace. He was Adam, of course, and she was Eve - -in a highly successful new San Francisco ballet titled Original Sin...
...that. As it turned out. Eve has to crouch in the hollow of that tree from the beginning of the ballet until it's time for her to slip from Adam's rib." As danced by San Francisco's exuberant, youthful bantam ballet company, Original Sin is emotional as well as entertaining...
German-born Author Maass, 60, has gifts like those of a Chinese magician: out of old newspaper pages about an obscure crime, he has proliferated a great flowering of sin and scenery, myth and mysticism. He resembles Simenon in his ability to evoke swiftly a street, a room, a city. In the final chapters, there is an unfortunate settling down of Gothic and miasmal mist, but even here, Gabrielle Bompard is wildly and insistently alive, whether jabbing a coachman with her imperious parasol or grumbling crossly at a tired lover: "Is it my fault if men overestimate their capacities?" Many...
...attempted to show how the vision of their writers has been limited by "the oppressive nature of the color conflict." Most of them, she said, write within the context of an "immoral morality" based on the idea that the color bar is absolute and the mingling of races a sin...