Word: sinlessness
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This assumption of reciprocity is, at least as of 1962, quite baseless. Although we often go much too far in assuming that we are entirely sinless and they totally evil, reaction to this exaggeration should not lead us into the other trap of equating two societies which still have very distinct interests and very distinct assumptions about the permissable uses of power. It still is our great interest to prevent the expansion of Soviet political hegemony, and all the evidence still indicates that the threat of force remains an indispensable tool of prevention. Soviet society has changed since the Stalin...
...Puerto Rican Catholic might believe that voting for the P.D.P. was a political matter outside the realm of faith and morals, and considered the bishops' letters merely advisory exhortations. In that case, if the voter has considered carefully and acted in good faith, he can be held sinless in respect to the vote. A top Vatican official explained the fine distinction: "Bishops are mortals and can be mistaken. And if the bishops are wrong in this case, then the voter in good faith has not sinned by voting, but he has sinned in disobeying his bishop...
...Governor; e.g., one eye is bluer than the other; he is ambidextrous. Except for the color of their eyes, the geographical locations and the political proper nouns, the heroes of the other three biographies are interchangeable. All had remarkable, up-from-the-shoetops careers; all are so faultless and sinless that they must certainly be potential candidates for beatification as well as the U.S. presidency. The Nixon biography is the work of Bela Kornitzer, a Hungarian refugee who, according to the dust jacket, learned English by going to American movies. This is undoubtedly true. The book includes a replica...
...accepts his stern order that they marry. Order carried out, her cool cat still yowls on neighboring fences. For revenge, Brigitte leaps out of her dress at a visiting prince (Charles Boyer) and wriggles her way into an invitation to fly down to Nice for the afternoon. A few sinless hours later, of course, she is back nibbling again at a repentant hubby...
...Center. It was this sinless monism, Asad claims, this "new creed that gave them to understand that man was God's vicar on earth," that brought about the mass conversions to Islam during the great Moslem expansion that reached as far as Spain. It was "not a legendary 'conversion at the point of the sword.' " But Asad does not ignore the centuries of stagnation that overcame a vigorous society: "As soon as their faith became habit and ceased to be a program of life . . . the creative impulse . . . gradually gave way to indolence, sterility and cultural decay...