Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sin & the Super. In the Manhattan Engineer District days, while the first A-bomb was still in the making, Teller's mind leaped ahead to the possibilities of a thermonuclear bomb repeating on earth the fusion that makes the stars glow. But at war's end he found most of his fellow scientists unwilling to work toward the "super." The deadly success of their A-bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki had rocked the consciences of the atomic scientists. "The physicists have known sin," said Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos' wartime director, and most of his colleagues...
Swedenborg, Kierkegaard, Toynbee, et al. When he does not have his avant-garde up, Wilson sounds suspiciously like Norman Vincent Peale: "It is not original sin that keeps man unaware of his own godhood, but his failure to connect himself with his own powerhouse...
...West agrees with Turgenev, who said: "There is not one of us but recognizes in the prince . . . our own characteristics." But the characteristics that men really recognize are neither noble aspirations nor irresoluteness: men see, in fact, their own traits of taint and corruption. Hamlet is stamped with Original Sin. Hamlet cannot be "pure"-nor can mankind. This is the message that people have managed to ignore for three centuries, because they have found it too unpleasant...
...would be extremely unfortunate if cultural considerations prevented the mass of Cambridge voters from giving adequate thought to the candidates and platform of the CCA. The CCA represents both honesty and dedication in city politics; if its efforts seem amateurish, the fact is not a sin, only a detriment to effectiveness. The CCA candidates and their stand for a "No" vote on both referenda are commendable. They deserve a strong vote...
Meet the Pagan. Filmed in Hollywood at an annual cost of $750,000, Life begins each shooting session with a silent prayer. The primary purpose of each episode, says Dr. Gockel, is "to acquaint the public with the way of salvation, and that is only through repentance for sin and faith in Christ." After an actress approached him on the set with "What's this 'Jesus died for us' routine?", Dr. Gockel became even more convinced of the need to reach the nation's "unchurched," introduced a TV technique of "new and fresh phraseology" to express...