Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Almost a Sin." All this bespeaks the enduring Andover, which is run on nothing more complicated than the primitive idea of ordeal. But the ordeal is far different from the one old grads remember. Everyone still looks up to the "jock" or man with a major "A." But these days the jock has to be a lot more-an actor, a proctor, a Merit scholar. The balanced hero is in. The snob is out. "A million kids are dying to get into Andover," says one lower-middler in a falsetto voice. "A guy who just mopes his way through...
...National Council of Alcoholism-predicated on the recognition that alcoholism is a disease rather than a moral flaw. In the continuing English debate on laws concerning prostitution, homosexuality and adultery, Ramsey holds that "morality is not best promoted by giving criminal status to every kind of grievous sin...
Domesticity irks Littlechap, and he has affairs with a Russian lady commissar, a German maid, and an American nightclub singer. There is less sin than smirk to these escapades. Playing the wife and all the other women in Littlechap's life as well, Anna Quayle is a droll dreadnought of a female. In the most waspishly comic number in the show. Ty pise he Deutsche, she sprays the audience with Hitlerian gutturals...
Every Sunday, Mrs. Baines atones for her sin. The three go to Tom's cemetery instead of church. "Crawl up the cross!" Winifred orders Mrs. Baines at the site of the grave. "Cry, you bitch, cry." Mrs. Baines obliges, while Wrinifred claws hysterically at the grave. But the rest of the week Mrs. Baines rules the household. She brutally orders her Milquetoast husband about, refuses to be in the same room with Winifred. A bad case of Calvinist repression, will-less Joshua cannot even bring himself to say "I want." His only solace is the Bible and the thought...
...councils. But the fathers may well formally note that the last word has not been said about the church's revealed truths, and they may attempt to give new dimension to such doctrines as papal infallibility, the "real presence" of Christ in the Eucharist, the nature of original sin...