Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What does a 19-year-old know about sin...
...Roger Rosenblatt, who leads the black-fiction seminar this year, A.C. serves the real audience of fiction classics. "What does a 19-year-old know about sin?" he asked a mother who had decided to return to college after more than 20 years away from school, although she felt embarrassed before her younger classmates. To Rosenblatt the alumni's questions about literature are more important than those asked by undergraduates for they dealt with life-related rather than literary-related themes. He was astonished when an alumnus sought to draw a parallel between Invisible Man and Watergate. Rosenblatt echoes many...
Were Adam and Eve real people whose taste of forbidden fruit tainted man forever with original sin? Did Jonah spend three days in the belly of a "great fish"? Did the Red Sea actually part for Moses and the Hebrews fleeing from Egypt? Last week in New Orleans, the 3,000,000-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod said yes to all those questions. By their votes, the delegates at the biennial L.C.M.S. convention made a crunching and almost unprecedented shift to the right, a shift that promises a major purge at the largest Lutheran seminary in the world...
...national circuit for nine years. But the feeling of impotence and submission vis-a-vis the world breeds a guilt for any form of success achieved in that world. I would go to bed each night with a knot in my gut, sick with the pressure of having to sin the next day. Winning itself was rarely more than a breath-catcher en route to new pressures and more anxiety. I had wrought winning into an ultimatum whose fulfillment made me guilty not just because the life style put a premium on success, but because I had been educated...
...some important points must first be resolved. He has not yet decided, for example, exactly which crops should be planted. He must also confront a Texas law banning the sale of food grown in human wastes, even though the sludge contains neither pathogens nor "any element of sham or sin." To prove the point, he will reserve 16 acres for scientific tests of all trace elements in various crops...