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...Methodists. Among those polled, total abstinence from alcohol was endorsed by 68.9%, slightly more than were opposed to breaking the speed limit (67.7%). But despite a "clear warning of the church against games of chance," a few more than 50% saw nothing wrong in bingo, and the onetime Methodist sin of dancing is now frowned on by only 15.2%. Condemned by about 95%: profanity and the misrepresentation of a product "in trying to make a sale...
American Spelling Book fed him huge doses of phonics, and with their high-toned tales about the perils of sin, Mc-Guffey's Readers did the same. But by the middle of the last century, the educators had already begun to revolt...
...reassured that the Times will not be intimidated. It has again reiterated its policy of firing any discovered Communist on the grounds that such a person would be unable objectively and honestly to report the news. At the same time, the paper has wisely repudiated the doctrine of "irredeemable sin." Former association with the Communist party, or the use of the Fifth Amendment, is not in itself reason for dismissal. The Times has judged its employees, and will continue to do so, on their work and the paper's confidence in them as individuals...
...Virgin's chair; for the rest, Fra Angelico's painting has been awakened by the dawning Renaissance. With rows of Brunelleschian columns, he achieves perspective, relegating symbolism to the background, where the distant figures of Adam and Eve state the origin of man's sin. In the foreground, is a rich, verdant carpet, carefully observed from nature and painted with the same joyful lyricism that St. Francis of Assisi had seen more than two centuries before in the world about...
Twice a week, Guerard pays some of the debt as he doles out sin in his popular course, "Forms of the Modern Novel." In Comp. Lit. 166, more famous as "one-sexty-sex," Guerard puts to work his precise and detached psychological analyses and seems to have great fun trying to shock his students. "The old-fashioned assumption which led to biographical studies of novelists," he says, "was that if you got the writer's public face and knew what he ate for breakfast, you could understand his books. But this overlooked the whole creative temperament or psyche that appears...