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...Certain Smile, by Françoise Sagan. That Bonjour Tristesse girl does it again in a novel in which sin triumphs over everything but syntax (TIME...
Toynbee makes the point that historians share with Christians the sin of selfcenteredness-a result of spiritual pride. He considers it an intellectual as well as a moral error, "because no living creature has a right to act as if it were the center of the Universe...
...people know that good people aren't attacked. It is the criminals who eliminate each other." Besides, it is doubtful whether even a Sicilian-run police force could soon overcome the centuries-old code of omertá, which makes informing-even against a rival gang-the greatest sin. Commenting on last week's murders, one Palermi-ano said with undisguised pride: "The black-clad widows don't speak; nor the children who nourish in their breasts their first thoughts of hatred and vengeance. That is the way of Sicilian blood...
...Bishop Marling warns that it is the psychiatrists's scientific knowledge only that the church needs−not moral notions, "consciously or unconsciously imbibed from modern thought," such as assigning too much authority to instinctive drives, negating the power of free will, or overstressing the subjective aspect of sin...
...best-paid literary practitioners of this kind of premature despair is Paris' intellectual gamin, Françoise Sagan, just turned 21. As readers who pushed the sales of Bonjour Tristesse past the million mark know, Sagan wears her world-weary rue with a spicy difference. In her novels, sin triumphs over everything but syntax. This high-styled amorality led one French critic to sum up her work as "classicism in panties...