Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high time someone woke up to the fact that Negro criminals are a privileged class in the U.S. They are usually treated as naughty children, their wrists are in effect slapped, they are turned loose on society and told to go and sin no more. Needless to say they are soon back in jail as repeaters. I have spent a major portion of my life in the South, and I find that nine times out of ten, if a Negro commits a crime against another Negro he gets the lightest sentence possible. However, it he commits a crime against...
...parts fit beautifully into the whole. Mangano for once is convincing, and Paolo Stoppa, as a man who wants all the pleasures of suicide without its aftereffects, is superb. Perhaps best of all is little Piero Bilancioni, who sits to his cards with the ancient face of sin itself. Indeed, Director De Sica's imagination is everywhere so vital, his control of it so gracious and exact, that his meaty little street scenes assume a classic form, a flavor rather like Aristophanic ravioli...
Full of Life (Columbia) is full of sex. And the sex, for a wonder, has nothing to do with Hollywood's usual sex substitutes-sin on silk, cheesecake photography, the cult of chest. Full of Life is full of a healthy, warmhearted, get-married-and-have-babies kind of sensuality...
...damned. What is so wrong with him, anyway? Readers may have to brace themselves for the answer given by French Novelist Albert Camus (The Plague). It is not fashionable, like the Oedipus complex or alcoholism or a nagging mistress. Jean-Baptiste is under Adam's curse, original sin. Such a theme would be no novelty from François Mauriac or Graham Greene, but it is surprising when it comes from an existentially-minded French intellectual. As a novelist, Camus dissipates his shock effect by telling his story in a long-winded flashback. As a thinker, he remains...
...move in the opposite direction towards religion. He is frozen midway. He accepts the Christian insight into the nature of evil, but rejects the rest of Christian theology. Every line of his book argues the need for religion, but he cannot accept God, even though his notion of original sin seems to postulate the existence...