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After six years they have two children and nothing in common. Running across a Negro maid (Odetta) who worked in the brothel, the heroine hires her to look after the children and to remind her of the "sanctuary" of sin and pleasure that she loved so well. Then, without warning, the bootlegger reappears. The lovers get down to brass beds again, and she agrees to run away with him. The Negro maid begs her to think of the children and stay home. When she refuses, the maid smothers the younger child...
Electronics of the Soul. The vision evokes terror as well as beauty, plainly alluding to the blinding dissolution of an atomic war. Light is knowledge : can it be sin also? Can the physicists with their nucleonics and the cyberneticists with their computers wash themselves of culpability for the blinding light they have created? Is all new knowledge good? And if it is not, should scientists be controlled - by the state, for the state's ends? So Schirmbeck's characters inquire, talking essays to each other the way Aldous Huxley's people used to, and enthusiastically fogging...
Between his freshman and sophomore years at the all-Negro Crispus Attucks* High School, Oscar sprouted six inches to a weedy 6 ft. 2 in. (Oscar's height, the family insists, was inherited from a 6-ft. sin. great-grandfather, who was born a slave, died in 1954 at 116, reputedly the oldest U.S. citizen.) Playing against some of the best competition in the nation, Oscar made all-state three years, led his team to a 45-game winning streak and two state championships. Says Crispus Attucks' Coach Ray Crowe: "Oscar was good enough in high school...
...unforgivable sin in professional basketball is "bridging," or "tunneling," in which a defensive man slyly ducks under a player who is driving for a layup. In one celebrated case of bridging, the Celtics' Bob Harris broke the left wrist of Schayes in 1954. Bridging is now rare, as is the unprovoked, intentional foul calculated to injure. "If a guy belts me on a legitimate play, fine and dandy," says Twyman. "I'll belt him down at the other end. But if a guy is dirty, really dirty, he's out to lunch. He can't watch...
...Juniors and Seniors who are Honors candidates, but Group III students have a hard time in some departments. On other points--whether independent study can be counted for concentration; whether it can be taken outside one's field; whether it can be used informally for writing theses (a cardinal sin in the eyes of some administrators)--each department has its own unique ideas...