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...high time someone woke up to the fact that Negro criminals are a privileged class in the U.S. They are usually treated as naughty children, their wrists are in effect slapped, they are turned loose on society and told to go and sin no more. Needless to say they are soon back in jail as repeaters. I have spent a major portion of my life in the South, and I find that nine times out of ten, if a Negro commits a crime against another Negro he gets the lightest sentence possible. However, it he commits a crime against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 4, 1957 | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

First, one must see that fat is sin ("We fatties are the only people on earth who can weigh our sin"). Second, one must accept God not as a terrible judge but as one "who loves you and wants to be your friend." Pastor Shedd, 41, recommends that his fat readers pray God to show them to themselves as they really are, to show them what he wants them to be, and to show them why they eat too much. "Teach me to face my hidden self," he prayed. "Open the windows of my subconscious closets and let in your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prayer & Fasting | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...relish, "which is likely to have so general an influence upon sinners." Methodism's Founder Wesley thus neatly expressed the theme of a curious and scholarly account of the great Lisbon earthquake, in which Sir Thomas D. (for Downing) Kendrick now traces the long-forgotten relation between sin and seismology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Time of Trembles | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...parts fit beautifully into the whole. Mangano for once is convincing, and Paolo Stoppa, as a man who wants all the pleasures of suicide without its aftereffects, is superb. Perhaps best of all is little Piero Bilancioni, who sits to his cards with the ancient face of sin itself. Indeed, Director De Sica's imagination is everywhere so vital, his control of it so gracious and exact, that his meaty little street scenes assume a classic form, a flavor rather like Aristophanic ravioli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 25, 1957 | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

...move in the opposite direction towards religion. He is frozen midway. He accepts the Christian insight into the nature of evil, but rejects the rest of Christian theology. Every line of his book argues the need for religion, but he cannot accept God, even though his notion of original sin seems to postulate the existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul in Despair | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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