Word: sinned
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DANCING may seem a sin to some Christians, but in Asia it is still what it always was - a way of worship. In six pages of color, TIME looks at the religious dancers of the East, their ups (in Ceylon) and their downs (in India). See RELIGION. Dancing for the Gods...
...such an act adultery? A sin, or a triumph of science? Last week these questions were exercising the best legal, religious and journalistic minds of Britain. Hearing MacLennan's suit, Lord Wheatley, a Roman Catholic judge of Scotland's Court of Session, listened to the argument of MacLennan's lawyer that the real essence of adultery is not how it is accomplished, but "the surrender of a woman's reproductive organs to another man." Commented Lord Wheatley: "Of course, it is not another man, but a test tube. She does not know...
...artificial insemination could bring comfort to women previously unable to conceive. Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, addressed the synod of the Convocation of Canterbury on the issue. Whether or not artificial insemination by donor was legally held to be a crime or not, he said, it was a sin in the eyes of the church. "It is something far less responsible and far less human than adultery," he asserted. "It violates the exclusive union set up between husband and wife. It defrauds the child begotten, and deceives both his putative kinsmen and society at large." As for Mr. MacLennan...
...like a cigar in a swamp"), tootled the piccolo, became president of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter-and ran the floatingest poker game in Matthews Hall. When his devout Methodist father heard about the poker, he insisted that Neil take up bridge instead (years before, figuring his sons should sin at home if they sinned at all, he had bought them a pool table to keep them from hanging around pool halls). The upshot: Neil McElroy plays both bridge and poker, enthusiastically and well...
...terms with the bishop that she was permitted "to hear Mass from her bedroom window." In a devoutly Catholic town ("If grandma would give me the money she spends on Masses, I'd be rich. I don't know if what I'm writing is a sin") Helena went through all the religious forms. Yet she could steal a brooch from her mother and convince herself that the idea "was given to me by Our Lady...