Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Billy Graham, who successfully prospected for sin from Korea to Denmark but strangely could not find it for five years in the White House where he prayed, has been saddened by what he belatedly read in the Watergate transcripts. The Rev. Dr. Peale, who has gaudily advised the multitudes in the powers of positive thinking, has uncharacteristically fallen silent over all that negative thinking revealed in the Oval Office. But the Rev. John Huffman, who was Nixon's sometime pastor in Key Biscayne, has not been as forbearing as the more famous ministers. He pointed out that the transcripts...
Anyone who read A Clockwork Orange before having his eyeballs poached by Stanley Kubrick's movie version knows Anthony Burgess as a writer with a hearty appetite for the cosmic bite into such subjects as original sin, good v. evil and spiritual sloth-not to mention the need for individual moral choice. He is also intimidatingly prolific and versatile...
...Awwk! Awwk!" sings Anthony Burgess in a loud, hoarse baritone. "Those E-flat major chords get the reader awake." Then in deep, funereal tones, quoting from his own book, he continues: "There he lies/ Ensanguinated tyrant/ O bloody, bloody tyrant/ See/ How the sin within/ Doth incarnadine/ His skin/ From the shin to the chin." "Perhaps," he adds, "Knopf should have given away a free record with every copy...
...their platforms. They promise to make France a "more just" society by increasing welfare payments and old-age benefits. In foreign policy they pledge fidelity to the Atlantic Alliance but not subservience to Washington. One of Chaban's top aides observed, "Both Chaban and Giscard are against sin and inflation. In the end, the whole thing will be decided on the basis of image...
...Minneapolis in 1901, reported Muckraker Lincoln Steffens, the mayor stacked the police department, then openly "laid plans to turn the city over to outlaws." A grand jury investigation eventually brought down the scheme. Eighty years ago, the sin-thumping Rev. Charles Parkhurst plunged state investigators into New York City's Tenderloin district for ten months of astounding discoveries about police involvement in brothels and gambling houses. Since then, a major investigation has been made of New York's Finest at almost regular intervals (1913, 1930, 1950, 1971). Chicago has a less metronomic, but even gamier tradition...