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...advertisers in the anniversary issue had to pay for their ads. Dozens of bylined articles were donated to the cause by literate or semiliterate types from all the stages of show business. Determined readers could dip into an essay on sin in the cinema by a translator of foreign subtitles named Herman Weinberg ("Surely, it is not sophistication to revel in bosoms and behinds"). They could sample Playwright William Saroyan at his most incomprehensible ("Squawking is futile unless it's something else at the same time, such as art, which is also futile unless it is something else...
...ugly show of violence toward Conner. Symbolically, it is the mock crucifixion of a false Christ. Hungering for the bread of understanding, the old people had been fed the cold tin plates of social progress. Updike unfolds his parable with stylistic elegance. But, too polite to talk about the sin of pride, he gradually throws away his book's sense of purpose...
...metropolitan areas), nearly 27% turned out to be racially inclusive, compared to 17% in 1944. Said a board statement: "Scant basis for complacency . . . We have much yet to undertake in order to live up to our commitment as Christians and our reiterated statements that racial segregation is a sin...
Actually, Bishop Dibelius is merely rolling with the punch of stepped-up anti-church activity. The Evangelical Church still regards Youth Dedication to the state as at least lip service to atheism, and hence a sin. But hardheaded Otto Dibelius and other church leaders in East Germany decided they must henceforth emphasize the church's readiness to forgive; youngsters who submit to the Red ceremonies but repent of their action will be admitted to confirmation at the discretion of the local minister...
...gets into position, sometimes, alas, even sooner. In a recent match with Dillon's men, the Colorado Gunslingers Association's President Earl Vaughn, a Colorado Springs air-conditioning engineer, managed to shoot his right calf full of paraffin. Says Dillon, who has been guilty of the same sin himself: "The oldtimers must have cocked as they drew, too. 'Course, I never heard of any of them shooting themselves in the calf...