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...also learned that they should avoid "such views of performers as emphasize anatomical details indecently," and got an obscure warning that "the use of locations closely associated with sexual life or with sexual sin must be governed by good taste and delicacy." Wrestling with the problems of advertising, the code suggested that six or seven minutes was long enough for the commercial on a 60-minute show, and hoped that the sponsor's name would only be shown "fleetingly" on the TV screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Code of Manners & Morals | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

Persecutors Pass Away. Hatred of sin in itself, said Williams, is one of the true marks of a true Christian. The worldly and unregenerate "can only hate the damages and disgrace and discredit of it; and so may a whore hate whoredom. 'Tis only the property of God's children and the newborn to hate sin as sin, with the sinful appearance of it, as opposite to their new and heavenly nature in Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Encouragement for Mary | 10/29/1951 | See Source »

...that nursery Yale would exceed Harvard." As for Mather, he was president of Harvard at the time he was soliciting so strenuously for Yale. He never did quite get into the swing of things at Cambridge, however, once denouncing Harvard Commencements as "very expensive and the occasion of much sin...

Author: By Michael J. Halberstam and Winthrop Knowlton, S | Title: Harvard Gets Yale Through 250 Historic Years | 10/19/1951 | See Source »

...Nest of Sin. In Queens, N.Y., William Munch, 68, who was arrested for growing marijuana, explained that he mixed it with birdseed to improve the singing of his 280 pet canaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...looks like literalness and nothing else. It is a religion that demands strict, hour-by-hour adherence to sacred custom. Promptly at sundown each Friday night, the Sabbath begins, and Orthodox Jews are required to be indoors (to travel in a vehicle on the Sabbath is counted as a sin). Twenty minutes before sundown, the housewife lights the candles which will burn through the Sabbath's 24 hours; any other lights must be turned on before that time. Synagogue services are entirely in Hebrew, and men & women sit apart, with their heads covered. The Orthodox Jew is expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Trumpet for All Israel | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

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