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...Cross." It is perhaps not too far-fetched to suggest that Simone Weil's obsession with becoming "the equal of God" was, on its less attractive side, a form of spiritual social-climbing, and that her willful, lifelong pursuit of wretchedness was the age-old sin of pride in the paradoxical guise of a bitter humility, that of wishing to be crucified in a surrogate Crucifixion...
...this unresolved note, the Cabinet adjourned. In the House of Commons, the Opposition hammered at the government on the difference between what Eden said and what he did. Eden had said Britain was protecting the canal; but the British broadcasts from Cyprus were telling Egyptians: "You have committed a sin, that is, you placed your confidence in Nasser and his lies." Said Labor's Nye Bevan: "Here you have not a military action to separate Israeli and Egyptian troops. Here you have a declaration of war against the Egyptian government in the most terrible terms...
...Sins of Bigness. This trend to bigness is criticized by some of the bigwigs. One of the strongest voices is that of Judson Sayre, who as Bendix president in 1941-55, probably did more than any other man to promote the automatic washer; he now heads Borg-Warner's fast-growing North Division (1955 sales: about $129 million, triple the 1953 volume). Says Sayre: "The industry has been committing every sin in the book. Some of the giants have a policy of 'buying off' key markets. They have been moving appliances through big dealers who operate...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra attempted some difficult music at its concert in Sanders Theater last Friday evening. As could be expected of a largely amateur group, the orchestra played with no great precision of intonation, steadiness of rhythm, or clearness of entrance. But its real sin lay deeper. The performances lacked life, and so the structures of sound which the group was trying to build often sagged and even tumbled...
...Harding's book the helpful Interpreter becomes the wise analyst. The all-too-literal Hell that Christian fears, she reads as psychosis. When, at the sight of the Cross, Christian is finally freed of his burden of sin, Dr. Harding explains that, actually, he "had found the right inner attitude." Giant Despair, who imprisons Christian in Doubting-Castle, and his sadistic wife, who urges him to torture and beat his prisoners, "represent the power of parents over against the weakness of the child." Christian's ultimate goal, Heaven, is revealed as merely the "wholeness of the psyche," presumably...