Word: sinful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...section that may disturb many is the discussion of sin. Considering certain sexual actions sinful in themselves, the book says, is "a belief [that] can lead only to more fear." Some celibates may also take umbrage at the observation that "only a few emotionally disturbed people never think about sex." Ultimately, the judgment that greets The Sex Book may well be the same as the book itself makes on striptease: "It can be argued that [it] serves a social purpose, although it may not be to everybody's taste...
Straight off, the Romans illustrate one of Miss Pullar's pet theses, which Americans, engulfed in cookbooks and cholesterol, might ponder: gluttony is the consequence of another sin, boredom -acedia. Affluent Roman days, according to Miss Pullar, were "great plains of monotony punctuated with affairs and mealtimes," often conducted simultaneously. (In a special appendix the twin hungers for food and sex are related by Miss Pullar, who is now at work on a biography of that priapic trencherman, Frank Harris...
South Korean President Chung Hee Park, 54, was so certain of victory in his bid for a third four-year term that while the vote was still being counted he journeyed to central Korea to give thanks at the shrine of the great 16th century Korean admiral, Yi Sun Sin. He was not being foolishly overconfident. When all the ballots had been tabulated, "Stone Face"-as the unsmiling Park is popularly known-had defeated his flamboyant opponent, Dae Jung Kim, 46, by 947,000 votes...
...quantity of history. We had a lot to learn about our humanity when we moved West; the land spoke loud enough that the lesson should have made others possible. I don't think we learned. We shall perish if it is now too late and it is a sin that I don't have time for a watch...
...state that there is a "moral trap" in the position that Calley's guilt applies to all. For, as you reason, "if everyone is guilty, no one is guilty or responsible, and the very meaning of morality disintegrates." Christianity teaches that Christ came to forgive our sins. Would you argue that he need not have come, since at that time the whole world was in sin? Since God, not man, secures the meaning of morality, it is possible that we are all morally in the wrong...