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For James Oliver Eastland, senior U.S. Senator from Mississippi, and spiritual leader of Southern resistance to school desegregation, this was a relatively restrained statement. In less temperate moments, Eastland has trumpeted the traditional Southern creed with a bluntness unsurpassed in the postwar U.S. From the floor of the U.S. Senate...
"The learned men were horrified at so frivolous a suggestion, and agreed . . . that such an action would be sinful.
At all masses in all churches throughout the archdiocese, the Roman Catholics of New Orleans listened to a pastoral letter that may prove to be a milestone in the school history of the city. "Racial segregation as such," Archbishop Rummel declared in the letter, "is morally wrong and sinful because...
The church traditionally sees its reponsibility as first to increase the number of souls who may worship God. Limitation of births, however, is not considered necessarily sinful when brought about through abstinence or the avoidance of intercourse during fertile periods (assuming that they can be determined). Said a Vatican official...
Except for nice music. Pipe Dream is pretty much of a bust. It is so warm-hearted about a cold world, so high-minded about its lowlifes as to emerge mere hootch-coated butterscotch. Its bawdyhouse seems about as sinful as Saturday night in a Y.W.C.A.; when its mugs and...