Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sins of Bigness. This trend to bigness is criticized by some of the bigwigs. One of the strongest voices is that of Judson Sayre, who as Bendix president in 1941-55, probably did more than any other man to promote the automatic washer; he now heads Borg-Warner's fast-growing North Division (1955 sales: about $129 million, triple the 1953 volume). Says Sayre: "The industry has been committing every sin in the book. Some of the giants have a policy of 'buying off' key markets. They have been moving appliances through big dealers who operate...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra attempted some difficult music at its concert in Sanders Theater last Friday evening. As could be expected of a largely amateur group, the orchestra played with no great precision of intonation, steadiness of rhythm, or clearness of entrance. But its real sin lay deeper. The performances lacked life, and so the structures of sound which the group was trying to build often sagged and even tumbled...
...Harding's book the helpful Interpreter becomes the wise analyst. The all-too-literal Hell that Christian fears, she reads as psychosis. When, at the sight of the Cross, Christian is finally freed of his burden of sin, Dr. Harding explains that, actually, he "had found the right inner attitude." Giant Despair, who imprisons Christian in Doubting-Castle, and his sadistic wife, who urges him to torture and beat his prisoners, "represent the power of parents over against the weakness of the child." Christian's ultimate goal, Heaven, is revealed as merely the "wholeness of the psyche," presumably...
...marriage courses at the University of Buffalo, students are encouraged to kiss on dates. Are we encouraging sin...
...Going steady" is an "occasion of sin," and students who persist in doing so will be barred from "any position of leadership or honor," the principal warned students at St. Mary's Roman Catholic coeducational high school in Lynn, Mass. "The only serious reason which would justify going steady is the hope of marriage in the near future. This reason should be absolutely nonexistent for any high-school student." Said The Pilot, organ of the archdiocese of Boston: "A forthright and, we may hope, decisive treatment...