Word: sinfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unforgivable sin in any Lind world is logic. Are the Enu a race of mutants-survivors of a nuclear bomb experiment? Or are they the missing link-a throwback to the age of reptiles? Is the island paradise or purgatory? At different times, Lind has it both ways. Consistency, as he sees it, is the hobgoblin of those without other hobgoblins...
LIBERATION THEOLOGY'S tenets may indicate the direction in which Graham's thought is evolving. As he said during his Kennedy School lecture, he is still grappling with the question of corporate sin--the sinful system, as opposed to the immoral individual. Answering one question about world poverty, he said the issue must be addressed in the future by political solutions. "I don't see much from charity alone." But, as he stressed, Graham comes from a tradition that exalted charity, the role of the missionary. The difference gives liberation theology its passion. A hundred 707s filled with food will...
...course, such violence and rebellion are inevitable as long as military occupation continues. This is the essential dilemma, the intractable problem that Good man's mayhem merely exacerbated. Quite sin ply Israeli control over a rapidly growing Arab population in Palestinian territory can't be peacefully maintained. And the only alternative to peaceful control is forcible occupation--an alternative that looks less attractive with every set of demonstrations, shootings and arrests. Indeed, each new clash only makes it clearer that ultimately the price of Israeli occupation will be civil...
...traffic is heavy, the air polluted. No detail is too gross and no conversation too crude to be recorded. It is as if Shea's residual pride and growing self-hatred prevent him from putting euphemisms between himself and his experience. Raw sin is like a dose of salts, evil is a flail for self-punishment, and the law smells of deals, not ideals. Even his Roman Catholic soul can cop a plea: "He had his script worked out. Confession on his deathbed. Penance. Extreme unction. Two sacraments for the price of one. A perfect act of contrition...
...Republic prior to the publication of The Kennedy Imprisonment, observed that popular response to the tape revelation was surprisingly muted: there was almost no outcry at all. Kennedy taped because he was by nature a historian, some explained, not because he was paranoid or a sneak. What was a sin in someone else became a virtue in Kennedy. Exasperated at this double standard, Wills could only wonder it "the strange emotional investment that many people have in the Kennedy myth." Clearly, people do not like to be told that their super-heroes are scumbags...