Word: sinfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worried are you about Iran's design sin Iraq...
Congratulations on the best review I have seen of anything that Norman Mailer ever wrote. You have succeeded in putting him where he belongs by quoting A.E. Housman: "[His] besetting sin is the use of words too forcible for his thoughts." How true. He won't know he's dead until he tries to move...
...love that is nothing less than paternal (for Falstaff is as much Hal's father as is King Henry); he is quick to tousle the youth's hair or put his arm around Hal's shoulders And he makes "If to be old and merry be a sin" as touching as Shylock's "Hath not a Jew eyes" Chalk up another triumph for the doting Dotrice...
...much the money that disturbs his critics: diocesan priests do not take a vow of poverty. The sticking point is the novels themselves, in which Greeley seems bent upon airing the dirtier linen of the church he professes to love and serve. Not only do Greeley's Cardinals sin, but lower prelates, priests and parishioners are awash in anger and avarice, deceit and envy, pride and lust-especially lust. Greeley pleads that his novels are not so much about sex as about love-God's love for sinful humans. Like biblical stories of adultery and incest, he argues...
...experiences of the cast in the Watergate scandal illustrate that the wages of sin are success...