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...matters anyhow. Jane Russell keeps trying to give Scott Brady, her agent, the other 90% of her; and both young women sing, as nowadays most lady vocalists do, in a peculiarly unpleasant morning voice. The hoarseness is apparently intended to suggest that the girls have taken large doses of sin in their time. In this case, it sounds more as if they had taken small ones of Sterno...
...church's captivity to [suburbia] is the death blow to recovery of the Biblical view of corporate life, corporate sin and corporate salvation . . . 'Salvation' and 'redemption' are disturbing to suburbia . . . Whatever the reason, the Biblical faith is rarely met with in suburbia despite growing church membership and activity...
...fail to sense the darker moralism, especially in the demoniac fantasy of the second half of this set. The satire is direct when compared to the Proverbs, yet the allusions to man's bestiality go beyond simple remarks on human foibles to a statement of original sin...
Hope or Despair? With this myth, Camus brings up a series of questions which have often been asked in the 20th century: Since God does not exist, under whose spiritual authority do I act? Since there is neither sin nor Hell, why do I feel so awful all the time? Since the past is just one damned thing after another, how did I get this way? Since there is no future, what is the use of going on? The Almighty set his canon against Hamlet's self-slaughter, but what is there to hold me back...
...Phenix City Story (Allied Artists). Long before the Civil War, Phenix City, Ala.-its name was Lively in those days-was known as the Sodom of the South. By 1941 it had grown into a "Sin City" of more than 15,000 permanent residents, almost all of them employed in the vice factories-gambling dens, brothels, dope parlors-that lined Phenix City's 14th and Dillingham Streets. By night the population doubled, and most of the steady customers came from Fort Benning, the U.S. Army's training camp across the Chattahoochee. When the boys didn't come...