Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half of suburban families have an annual income under $10,000, and one-third of them contain a union member. They are not primarily commuters: not many more than a third of the principal wage earners travel to the central city to work. And they are not steeped in sin, at least by their own possibly self-serving accounts. Fewer than a fifth favor sex before marriage, and only one in ten believes that the neighbors would consider an occasional extramarital fling "a good thing...
...ultimate criticism of the overcomplicator is not that he fuzzes but that he fudges. If the cardinal sin of the oversimplifier is to inflate the trivial, the cardinal sin of the overcomplicator is to flatten the magnificent-or just pretend that it is not there. In the vocabulary of the '70s, there is an adequate language for fanaticism, but none for ordinary, quiet conviction. And there are almost no words left to express the concerns of honor, duty or piety...
...Post's sin was to state on Dec. 9, 1969 that "a total of 28 [Black] Panther members have died in clashes with police since Jan. 1, 1968" without giving the source of its information or trying to verify the accuracy of the figure. What prompted the Post apology was an investigative report by Edward Jay Epstein, published last month in The New Yorker. In six months of research, Epstein found that only ten Panther deaths were due to police action, and in at least eight of those cases the police had been provoked in varying degrees before opening...
...school every Saturday morning after Friday night games-60 miles away and 7 a. m., to boot), this co-captain Billy Morrison who was nicknamed "Porky" because he weighed 180 pounds in 6th grade, and who had worked as a bouncer at the Safari Beach Motel, which was the sin center for every spring vacation college-riot-party-guzzle ever since sixth grade (he threw out some 2nd string tackle from L. S. U. in 1963, the year they still had Paul Dietzel and the Chinese Bandits) yes, Patty, the sad-eyed girl, tough Southern dark-haired, drink away...
Good Send-Offs. Schuyler denizens are regarded with bemused contempt by more swinging Columbia students. "It's a place for anal Catholics. They want to preserve you from sin," scoffs one junior, a Catholic himself. As a group, the students are well above average in ability and politically quite conservative; they tend to shun radical activism. But each weekend some 20 residents take turns doing volunteer tutoring at an Opus Dei study center for younger students. Mostly, the residents' zest for service is inner-directed, toward caring for sick Schuylerites or helping dorm mates who have dropped behind...