Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, one must see that fat is sin ("We fatties are the only people on earth who can weigh our sin"). Second, one must accept God not as a terrible judge but as one "who loves you and wants to be your friend." Pastor Shedd, 41, recommends that his fat readers pray God to show them to themselves as they really are, to show them what he wants them to be, and to show them why they eat too much. "Teach me to face my hidden self," he prayed. "Open the windows of my subconscious closets and let in your...
...relish, "which is likely to have so general an influence upon sinners." Methodism's Founder Wesley thus neatly expressed the theme of a curious and scholarly account of the great Lisbon earthquake, in which Sir Thomas D. (for Downing) Kendrick now traces the long-forgotten relation between sin and seismology...
...course of The Sin of Pat Muldoon, playwright John McLiam has the hero reach through the window of his Santa Clara, California, home to pluck an orange from a tree growing in the back yard. Somewhat later he informs the audience that redwoods grow along the town's main street. I am prepared to testify that in my ten years' residence in the San Francisco Bay Area I have not seen a single orange tree there, and that no redwoods stand in the center of Santa Clara. It would, though, be a pleasure to forgive Mr. McLiam his horticultural inaccuracies...
...ghoulish affair is inhabited by some appropriately unpleasant characters. The above mentioned hero, Pat Muldoon, is an impecunious Irish immigrant and tree surgeon whose sin consists of selling the last remaining bit of family property--perhaps symbolically, a back alley--and spending the money on a spree. Mr. Barton's performance in the role is a little incoherent, a fact which may be excused on the grounds that the cute little Irishisms and maunderings about the homeland which he is called upon to utter must have proved thoroughly repulsive to an actor of his stature and experience...
...fact that at one point, and for no clearly discernible reason, he breaks down in tears. I must admit an irreligious impulse to cheer at Pat's ultimately successful efforts to die without letting him administer the Last Sacraments of the Church. But that is the only thing The Sin of Pat Muldoon presents to cheer about...