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Priests. In many of the stories, O'Connor takes a mild jab at the clergy: Father Ring, a well-meaning but not too wise busybody; Father Cassidy, a worldly sort nonplussed by a girl's blithe confession of sin ("A philosopher of 60 letting Eve, aged 19, tell him about the apple!"); and Father Foley, a tragic figure who finds himself in love with a woman ("He sat by the fire wondering what his own life might have been with a girl like that, all furs and scents and laughter...
...time the congress convened, the welcome smile was a frozen grin. At a luncheon for the correspondents, Vladimir Topencharov, Assistant Foreign Minister and Press Director, lectured the visiting firemen on their lack of "objectivity." Their sin: they had reported that the inevitable "spontaneous" demonstration hailing the congress appeared to have been pretty well organized beforehand...
...atomic energy for military purposes. . . . The physics which played the decisive part in the development of the atomic bomb came straight out of our laboratories and our journals. . . . In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose...
Professor Elliott stated that if would be dangerous to "lot 100,000 Jews enter Palestine from carefully indoctrinated countries." To whom is he referring? The 100,000 Jewish refugees sin DP camps in the American sector of Germany? Indoctrinated by whom? American Military Government oricutation squads...
...Goldovsky's insistent misinterpretation of the Giovanni role. Through devices of exaggeration and misrepresentation the Don was painted progressively blacker and blacker. In the famous anti-climactical finale Goldovsky had two of his singers draw the curtains behind them as they warned the audience of the effects of sin, thus putting the last film of farce on what should have been a tragedy-on a performance that was petty and cute and exaggerated instead of majestic and underlyingly serious...