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...Presidential campaign, the presentation of such material as fact, to a large portion of the electorate, by a journal that has seemingly espoused impartiality in the press, seems a violation of journalistic ethics. It is not a sin to be against Kennedy, but sublimal innuendo is not a legitimate weapon. Certainly no Republican of stature would want aid such as that which Time has tried to give...
...religious training in public schools and Munoz Marin's "antidemocratic attempt to limit clergy solely to religious functions." The bishops did not indicate what ecclesiastical penalties might be dealt out to the many islanders who presumably will ignore the prohibition. Asked point-blank if it would be a sin to violate the injunction, Archbishop Davis said it would...
...Tenderloin's story, with its uneasy shifts from pulpit to police court and from the choir loft to the girls, upstairs, needs much more adroit handling than it gets. Again and again, gaiety is left waiting at the church door, and even sin turns tedious when it is allowed to talk. More and more, as virtue and decorum triumph, interest flags, color fades, and toughness is deprived of its teeth...
...cancerous Krebiozen controversy does not exist, organized medicine represented by the American Medical Association and the American Cancer Society is acting on the assumption that "if we don't look, it will go away." This, as A.M.A. and A.C.S. are both quick to assert, is the cardinal sin of patients who delay in taking their lumpy growths to a doctor...
...Durrell raises up laments to the bleakness of life, bathes in scorn and sorrow the wretched creatures who must live it, sets down prose odes to the godawfulness of England. The outlook is determinedly fungoid, yet the tone is perversely gleeful. The author is gloriously drunk with sex, sin, scorn, youth and his own deflowering genius...