Word: sinfully
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...musician to set the tone of the place. One of the classical pianists's plaintive pieces made a sin out of slamming a cup into its saucer, while a less sedate jazz pianist encouraged quiet voice-overs by banging out some irreverent jazz tunes...
With consummate theatrical brio, Shaffer has attuned the audience to some of its deepest desires-sin, guilt, confession, atonement and a degree of redemption. Dare one say that he has also blinded the audience to his exaltation of deranged violence as religious passion and his derogation of civilizing reason as hollow passivity...
...simple for a self-made Dostoyevskian man. He must risk the bundle in Las Vegas (where he doubles it), then lose it all on some unwise basketball bets. He finally settles the matter by getting his favorite student -a black -to shave points in a game, then expiate that sin by provoking a black pimp and whore to punish him unwittingly in a switchblade battle...
...major point of contention between Guinier and the administration is the relationship between DuBois and the Afro Department. The administration's plan for the research facility calls for no formal connection between the two. Guinier's apparent sin is that he argued against the administration's position and voiced the discontent of many students and faculty who felt that the resources of DuBois should be available to a still-young Afro Department...
Nobody in the West has done more to clear up the mystery of China than John K. Fairbank, professor of Chinese history at Harvard. His latest book, a collection of 17 essays written between 1946 and 1974, continues a lifetime of combat against what he calls "the original sin of ignorance" about East Asia. It is a sin, Fairbank feels, that can be resisted only with the help of a great deal more historical knowledge than most Americans now possess. The various pieces in the book are unified by the author's persistent attempt to show that the present...