Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charity has long been a broad, well-traveled bridge over which the Outs have made their way toward the Ins. For one thing, a Good Cause helps adjust the American conscience to the sin of pleasure; Boston's Old Guard ladies still meet to gossip in "Sewing Circles," though the original pretense, sewing for the poor, has long since been abandoned. There are more modern advantages in having an eleemosynary excuse for an enchanted evening: 1) costs are tax-exempt contributions, and 2) the socially ambitious will write big checks and work furiously for the chance to rub elbows...
...confession he later retracted, Somarama said he committed the deed because the Prime Minister favored Western medical techniques over Oriental herb medicine. Prison officials reported that 24 hours before he was hanged, Somarama had himself baptized a Christian so that he could ask God for the forgiveness of sin that cannot be found in the Buddhist religion...
...Bell Telephone Laboratories' experimental Electronic Central Office in Morris, Ill., the exchange is automatic, of course. But for all the functions the exchange performs without human attention, Bell is aware that all its components can hardly work right all the time. To avoid employing human troubleshooters, Engineer Sin Hsuin Tsiang has trained the machine to spot its own breakdowns and tell humans how to fix them...
...Flies is required reading at a hundred U.S. colleges, is on the list of suggested summer reading for freshmen entering colleges from Occidental to Williams. At Harvard it is recommended for a social-relations course on "interpersonal behavior." An M.I.T. minister uses it for a discussion group on original sin. At Yale and Princeton-where Salinger, like the three-button suit, has lost some of his mystique as he becomes adopted by the outlanders -the in-group popularity of Golding's book is creeping up. At Smith, where Lord of the Flies runs a close second in sales...
...camp when I was a counselor." On another level, Golding believes students "seem to have it in for the whole world of organization. They're very cynical. And here was someone who was not making excuses for society. It was new to find someone who believes in original sin." The prickly belief in original sin is not Golding's only unfashionable stance. Under questioning by undergraduates, he cheerfully admitted he has read "absolutely no Freud" (he prefers Greek plays in the original) and said there are no girls on the island because he does not believe that...