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Perhaps his most famous applications of Platonism to modern society appeared in the Alumni Bulletin in 1948. The article bade educators to pay some attention to "failure stories" as well as success stories; "By purging man of the original sin of self sufficiency, tragedy makes him sociable and companionable," he writes. And then returning, as ever, to Plato, he concludes, "In Plato's words the philosopher has a view of all time and all existence. With such a perspective, he can put success in its place and failure in its place, and so be unshaken either by misfortune or good...
...picture does not reduce Luther to a stock hero, or make his break from the Church into a simple tale of right and wrong. It follows Luther through the days of his early doubt about the right of his religion, tracing his compelling feeling of sin with graphic scenes of self-scourging and confession to the Vicar General of his monastic order. Then, without being pedantic, Luther expounds his theories of salvation through faith, and of a popular interpretation of Scripture...
...achieved," he wrote her. "There is nothing left but to copy it." Renoir painted seven portraits of her, often pleaded that she open her dress more. "Lower, lower," he begged. "Why, in heaven's name, don't you let me see your breasts? It is truly a sin...
Those guilty of sin, e.g., misinterpreting the party line or "too close an intimacy with bourgeois friends," were hauled before disciplinary courts where Communist justice was generously dispensed. The presiding Communist would shout: "Don't try to get out of this by making a speech. This isn't a bourgeois court of law. You've no legal rights here; you're a party comrade before a party court...
Which is better-to live in legal sin in a spirit of love and affection or to have a different father for each child in the family with the next applicant already picked...