Word: sin
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...Conceived in Sin." The result was an impressive argument for live TV drama. Seldom has so much TV wallop been packed into an hour as in Director Lumet's handling of the fall of Governor Willie Stark, ruggedly played by granite-faced, gravel-voiced Neville Brand, 37, a relative unknown until his Part 1 performance a fortnight ago. Though the limitation of time forced the play to move so swiftly that complexities of Willie's evil drive for self-esteem were lost, it surged with the brutal power of Willie's premise: "Man is conceived in sin...
...Trinity, Dangerfield is a spiv student of law who cheats at his exams, cheats on his wife Marion (whom he calls "a scheming slut"), cheats a succession of easy conquests, from barmaids to old maids. When one of them laments "It's adultery," Dangerfield comforts her: "One mortal sin is the same as another." He is the pest of the Coombe, Dublin's slum area, among whose tolerant denizens it is very hard indeed to become a pest...
After years in the national doghouse, Howard Fast renounced Communism, and is now thoroughly rehabilitated: this week he sold another novel to the movies, to be made into a $4,000,000 epic of sin, slaughter, and spectacle (not socialism) in ancient Rome. The history of Fast's career provides disturbing evidence of the existence in America of an informal conspiracy, not so much to prevent the dissemination of Communist propaganda, as to prevent Communist artists from making a living...
...divorced. The present rule permits remarriage only of the innocent party to a divorce granted for desertion or adultery. The new recommendation sanctions divorce when "a marriage dies at the heart and the union becomes intolerable," and permits remarriage of any divorced person in whom "sufficient penitence for sin and failure is evident, and a firm purpose of, and endeavor after, Christian marriage is manifested." The new proposal is not yet church law; it must first be approved by three-fourths of the 83 presbyteries, then by next year's General Assembly...
...Climate of the Lost, a 14-year-old daughter of divorced parents falls victim to the selfish misunderstanding of her mother. Unfolded in a sensuous South of France setting, it is a harrowing case history in which innocent young love is turned into a crushing, puzzling sin by adults whose sensual greeds have corrupted them to the point of monstrousness...