Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital: "The 325,000 clergymen in the U.S., teaching Sunday schools and preaching in pulpits, can foster healthy emotional attitudes if they have some knowledge of emotional dynamics. They can bring about a more realistic attitude toward guilt, with less emphasis on sin while still recognizing its importance...
Book Gresham's evil power is opposed by Brother Cox, the "webbed faced" preacher who tries to close the valley honky-tonk but loses his "holy war agin sin" when Book frames him for "a sight of carrying-on'' with a no-good girl. Fate Laird takes on too much when he gives Bodoc a job and takes the preacher's side against the courthouse-cathouse gang. Laird's son Clay shoots a mean deputy and is convicted of murder in Book Gresham's court. But in the end a sort of moral truce...
...people, but French novelists have made his little delinquencies into one of the most readable of literary exports. To be sure, there are the existentialist writers who manage to turn sex into a measure of personal calamity and there are the Mauriacs who turn it into a measure of sin. But for the moment, U.S. read ers can settle back in relief with two new French novels that restore the classic Gallic atmosphere to the oldest game in the world. In both The Green Mare of Marcel Aymé and The Wicked Village of Gabriel Chevallier a fun-and-games...
...Wolfson, 59, who made his living after World War I as a remedial voice trainer, fled to London after Hitler took power, and there developed a theory that is now almost an obsession. "Man has misjudged, underestimated, neglected and finally stultified his voice," he says. "Man has elevated the sin against nature to a dogma, the dogma of those strictly confined, neatly labeled categories: male voice and female, high voice and low, child's voice and adult's. In reality, the natural human voice comprises all these ranges and registers...
...reveals that the envelope contains a dollar with her name and address on it in ink. "I mean I don't want somebody else takin' all the credit with the Holy Father!" she explains. Father Udovic recognizes that the woman and he are caught alike in the sin of pride: "It seemed to him, sitting there saying nothing, that they saw each other as two people who'd sinned together on earth might see each other in hell, unchastened even then, only blaming each other for what had happened...