Word: sinfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unpardonable Sin. Despite Bowker's determination to keep high standards, critics feel that some dilution of quality must eventually appear in even the best-funded and -staffed open-admissions program. Guaranteed admissions, they argue, may lead to insidious pressures for guaranteed diplomas. At the moment the biggest worry is how to keep many students from dropping out, but "20% of these kids get a degree," says Vice-Chancellor Healy. "That's 20% above zero." Even those who earn two-year degrees will benefit the city, which sorely needs trained people in fields ranging from medicine to police work...
...CUNY experiment works, it will almost certainly set a pattern for other urban campuses. "Failure is possible," Bowker conceded last week. But at a time when the gap between blacks and whites is widening, he added, "the unpardonable sin would have been...
...since the Reformation has Roman Catholic theology been such a popular topic as in the years following the Second Vatican Council. New opinions by theologians on such diverse subjects as sexual morality, original sin, papal infallibility and even the nature of the Mass and sacraments have provoked applause, shock and division. Last week, in an attempt to arrive at some "common denominators" that might ease the division, 225 of those theologians -mostly Catholics but including a few Protestants-met in Brussels to discuss 'The Future of the Church...
...ever mean. He draws his friends into his fancies and fantasies "like a group of boys starting out on an adventure at the beginning of a vacation," one notes. Every day he sets off down the Mississippi with Tom, Huck and Jim. In this world the cardinal sin is to betray a friend. About the only time Plimpton displays real dismay is when he talks of a fellow writer who revealed a confidence in print: "I think that's just awful, reprehensible...
...begin to love him. Into The Leper are woven the themes that run through the later books: the subtle corruption of sensuality, the deep self-loathing that accompanies love, the glimmer of salvation when all possibilities of evil are exhausted. To live, Mauriac seems to say, is to sin. Only death, with its brutal clarity, illuminates life. And that light is the one grace vouchsafed mankind...