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...Proclaims one Hindu manual for wives: "Be her husband deformed, aged, infirm, offensive . . . choleric, debauched, immoral, a drunkard, a gambler, let him frequent places of ill-repute, live in open sin with other women ... a wife should always look upon him as her god . . . remain with her eyes fixed upon him waiting for his orders...
Climax of the action comes when mankind, up for judgment for the world's sin, turns against God as the guilty one, and sentences him to experience for himself the agony of a D.P., "homeless, hungry, thirsty, terrified of death," surrounded by misery and sickness, suffering even the death of his own child, and dying at last himself in pain and dishonor. The human judge duly condemns God "to the hellish journey of being a man," and the three Archangels leave to carry out the sentence...
There is a basic inconsistency in the stand of the American Catholics, because films from predominantly Roman Catholic Italy and France are considerably more frank about the darker side of life and less dogmatic about "sin" always leading to a bad end, the Legion of Decency's major objection to Baby Doll. In fact, Warner Brothers look to foreign showings of the film for a large part of its revenue...
...finds Louisa a soft-spoken girl with pudding-round cheeks and plain as rain. But her younger sister Ida is another matter-lithe, shrill, dark and electric. Roger kisses her on a dare, and shortly dares more. "What about Louisa? What are we going to do?" asks a momentarily sin-shocked Ida. "Do? Why, keep our mouths shut, I should think," answers Roger...
...dying Kansdorf to find God in a mystical crucifixion reverie while himself regaining his lost calling. Loosely plotted but tautly written, the book relies finally on devices that are more pious than imaginative. By protesting his faith too much, Novelist Stolpe has made his fictional foray into original sin less gripping than that of, say, Albert Camus, a professed atheist, whose The Fall (TIME, Feb. 18) leaves the most complacently irreligious reader under a conviction of sin and the dread need to examine the state of his own soul...