Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famous father. What's wrong with the picture is its script. Scenarist Henry Denker says some things that cannot be said too often: a life once lost can never be replaced; anyone who kills, kills part of himself; men are born with original virtue as well as original sin; peace is a moral as well as a political achievement. But sometimes he is carried away in his chiliastic exaltations. He really seems to believe, for instance, that people who get to know each other inevitably get to love each other. Silly...
...rapacious, lecherous Centaurs by his kindness and wisdom. Chiron was erroneously wounded by a poisoned arrow, and, unable to bear the pain, he longed for death. He prayed that he might pass on his immortality to Prometheus, and that his death would be accepted in atonement for Prometheus's sin, the presentation of divine fire to man. Zeus answered his prayer, and placed Chiron among the stars as the constellation Sagittarius, the Archer...
Seated last week beneath the huge chandelier in his paneled office, Alabama's Governor George C. Wallace gulped Coke and denounced the lavish spending of his predecessor, John Patterson. Growled Wallace: "It's criminal, it's a shame, it's a sin...
...intriguing parcel from an unknown donor. In the mail came the most literary pornographic novel since the Marquis de Sade. Called L'Histoire d'O, it once moved Catholic Paul Claudel to remark, "All priests should read it so they may have an exact sense of sin." The parcel was intended to prejudice academicians against electing the man who had written the book's preface. Jean Paulhan, 78, and who is widely suspected of having written the novel himself under a pseudonym. A grand mandarin of French letters, Paulhan is director of the influential Nouvelle Revue Fran...
...Adding sin to sin...