Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMEDIANS. Graham Greene's Haitian purgatory has an excellent cast (Richard Burton, Peter Ustinov, Alec Guinness, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Ford) and enough transcendent drama to absolve it from its most glaring sin: at two hours and 40 minutes, it is too long...
...PYRAMID, by William Golding. A deceptively simple story of a man's simultaneous rise and fall, absorbingly told by Golding and buttressing his view that original sin is an anthropological fact...
...coincide with those put by men who are not Christians," he said. "Modern man wants to see things from the viewpoint of his daily existence." As an example, Kerstiens asked delegates to consider such questions as, "What should be our attitude towards revolutionary movements?", and "Is racial discrimination a sin to be confessed...
...such come-on titles as The Girl with Hungry Eyes and Not Tonight, Henry. "Titles are very important in this business," he explains, "because frankly the pictures aren't that different." He even welcomes the censorship attempts of some newspapers when they change the ads for Days of Sin and Nights of Nymphomania to something like Days of Naughtiness and Nights of ?, because "it makes things seem even dirtier in the reader's imagination...
Golding's view of original sin as an anthropological fact is one that modern man would like to reject but that five dreadful decades of history have forced back into the forefront of the mind...