Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Potting Shed is much less dour than The Living Room, not only because at the end James Callifer has found a measure of faith, but because the whole play is concerned with faith and not with sin, and because it pivots on a priestly uncle who fortifies rather than fails the protagonist. And though neither play fully sustains itself, the last-act letdown of The Potting Shed is more like that in The Cocktail Party. Here, Greene the playwright takes a whole act for what the novelist could wind up in a chapter...
Mary's Assumption in 1950, the Pope took no position on the question whether the Virgin was assumed bodily into Heaven after death or before it. Some, like Father John P. O'Connell. editor of the Catholic Family Bible, think that death is the result of original sin and that, since Mary was free from original sin (the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception), she was not subject to death. Another view, advanced by the Rev. William G. Most of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, holds that Mary died of the love of God. "Such a love is like...
...canteen of a British metal foundry in North Birmingham, 200-odd coveralled workers were assembled. The managing director had given them 20 minutes before they would have to go back to work. A short, grey-haired visitor stepped forward, his blue eyes blazing, his arms pumping violently. "Sin, sin," he cried. "Sin is gnawing away at the human heart. I'm not pointing the finger of accusation at you. I know, as I stand here today, I'm in the same trouble as you. But I know I've found the answer-Jesus Christ . . . There...
...Hell, it is because we have willed to do so ... So the Lady Julian said that in her visions she 'saw no Hell but sin' and St. Catherine of Genoa said that the fire of the torment was the light of God as experienced by those who reject...
...stand on and make a speech." With a lisp caused by two widely separated front teeth, Billy Knowland would get up on his box and proclaim: "Wepwethentative government ith the way we do thingth in thith country." The inscription on his grammar-school graduation program read: "Appearance-politician. Besetting sin-politics." At twelve he spoke for the Harding-Coolidge ticket. He thrilled to the drama of his first national convention in 1924, returned to take over the chairmanship, from an adult who had fallen ill, of the finance committee of Alameda's Coolidge-Dawes Republican Club. Billy raised funds...