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...Decency, Conn., a favorite De Vries setting, the commuters and their wives clown around on the wall-to-wall carpeting but hear the steady drumming of eternity on the roof. In Pocock pipes of Pan playing tunes of innocence drown out the ravings of a street-corner Jeremiah. With sin and guilt suspended, the book lacks the touch of tragic relief that has made De Vries a top banana of the Calvinist comedy hour...
...apportionment of rewards and penalties can legitimately be made according to race-rather than according to merit or ability." He concluded bitterly: "There are those who think that we need a new Constitution, and their views may some day prevail. But under the Constitution we have, one practice Sin which Government may never I engage is the practice of racism...
...other outbursts of moral fervor, Khomeini decreed that all women must now cover themselves with "proper Islamic dress," and the Center for the Campaign Against Sin banned the sale of records and tapes of "vulgar music" from the West. The popularity of all these measures seems questionable: at week's end only some 300,000 responded to official calls for a pro-Khomeini demonstration in Tehran. That was an embarrassingly low turnout, compared with the millions who regularly jammed the streets of the capital at the beginning of the Islamic revolution last year...
...among them Kasimir Malevich, Naum Gabo, Vladimir Tatlin, Alexander Rodchenko and El Lissitzky, wanted to serve the new power of the left by combining revolutionary art with revolutionary politics. Russian constructivism was, in fact, the only heroic modernist style that drew its strength from the revolutionary impetus. Yet its sin was in being abstract, and for that it was consigned to darkness by Stalin and his cultural apparatchiks after...
...Sin comes from the soul, not from the flesh..." --St. Augustine...