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...good ones in Branka Djonovica Street-was without heat, and word went around Belgrade that it soon would be vacant. Summoned back from a sanitarium where he goes frequently for treatment of his old war wounds, Dedijer learned that he was being purged from government and party for the sin of "diversionism." In Communist eyes, Dedijer's waywardness began a year ago. When the regime's No. 3 Communist, Milovan Djilas, was put on trial for publishing articles which publicly criticized both the loose morals and the political rigidity of the party's top leaders, only...
...church would wholly approve if the law was no longer content to accept a single act of adultery as a sufficient ground." Other British prelates have gone on record in the same vein lately. Unfaithfulness, said the Archbishop of York, "should never be treated as the one unforgivable sin," and Bishop J.W.C. Wand of London said in a sermon: "It is a pernicious idea that if one partner has been unfaithful, then the home must be destroyed...
...Brooks Atkinson, for example, confessed in his [New York] Times review . . . that a dialogue on sin between a psychiatrist and a priest was quite beyond him. And he wondered what all the play's gloominess, all its brooding over guilt, was about . . . After all, Mr. Atkinson implied, religion is meant to make people 'happy...
...What has religion to do with suffering? What is guilt? What is sin? What is the problem of evil? Graham Greene may or may not have dealt successfully with these questions in The Living Room, but the fact that the majority of New York reviewers could not see that the questions are real is a depressing sign of what our culture has come to. We have been fed such a diet of peace of mind and peace of soul, and been provided with so many guides to confident living, that we apparently can no longer grasp the meaning of spiritual...
...SEED, by William March, told the horror story of a little monster touched with congenital sin, a pigtailed murderer only eight years old. It was done with quiet skill by an underrated U.S. writer who died within the year. This week it appeared on Broadway in an expert dramatization by Maxwell Anderson (see THEATER...