Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cigarettes really are cancer-breeding coffin nails, is it a sin to smoke them? Last week, in Notre Dame's Ave Maria magazine, a top-ranking canon-law expert, the Very Rev. Francis J. Connell, dean of the School of Sacred Theology at Washington's Catholic University, sifted ashtrays in a search for moral wrong. Nonsmoker Connell's canonical conclusion: it takes a lot of puffing to make a cig a sin-generally three packs...
...been accused of fleecing a Teamster's widow, and because he had stood in the way of ambitious Jimmy. Bellowed Beck, in an hour-long swan song: "To thine own self be true! I would like to see the man who can stand up-who is without sin-and cast that first stone. God never created me in the crucible of infallibility...
Drumbeat Repetition. The old National Catechism phrased its lessons in adult language, relied on drumbeat repetition to teach difficult concepts that children later might grow to understand: "Was the Blessed Virgin preserved from original sin? Yes, the Blessed Virgin was preserved from original sin. This is why we say that she was conceived without sin." The new catechism's verse presentation is designed for emotional appeal...
...Mama without any sin...
Materialist Morality. Author Rand's philosophy, hammered home in endless hectoring and lecturing, seems based mostly on Nietzsche's inversion of all Christian values, with an admixture of Adam Smith economics and David Hume ethics, both carried to absurd extremes. The greatest sin is following the Sermon on the Mount. Selfishness is the highest good, the spirit of sacrifice the worst evil. In shrill outcry against government and religion, Author Rand defines taxes as "protection money" paid to "gangsters," and the doctrine of Original Sin as responsible for destroying Man's "reason, morality, creativeness, joy." She frenetically...