Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reassured that the Times will not be intimidated. It has again reiterated its policy of firing any discovered Communist on the grounds that such a person would be unable objectively and honestly to report the news. At the same time, the paper has wisely repudiated the doctrine of "irredeemable sin." Former association with the Communist party, or the use of the Fifth Amendment, is not in itself reason for dismissal. The Times has judged its employees, and will continue to do so, on their work and the paper's confidence in them as individuals...
...Virgin's chair; for the rest, Fra Angelico's painting has been awakened by the dawning Renaissance. With rows of Brunelleschian columns, he achieves perspective, relegating symbolism to the background, where the distant figures of Adam and Eve state the origin of man's sin. In the foreground, is a rich, verdant carpet, carefully observed from nature and painted with the same joyful lyricism that St. Francis of Assisi had seen more than two centuries before in the world about...
...experience. For the war seems chiefly responsible for the deep interest in people's emotions and behavior that underlies his fiction, his teaching, and his literary criticism. "It was the first big public thing that happened to me," he recalls. "I suppose I'll have to pay for that sin for the rest of my life...
Twice a week, Guerard pays some of the debt as he doles out sin in his popular course, "Forms of the Modern Novel." In Comp. Lit. 166, more famous as "one-sexty-sex," Guerard puts to work his precise and detached psychological analyses and seems to have great fun trying to shock his students. "The old-fashioned assumption which led to biographical studies of novelists," he says, "was that if you got the writer's public face and knew what he ate for breakfast, you could understand his books. But this overlooked the whole creative temperament or psyche that appears...
Janus (by Carolyn Green) calls for somewhat faint praise but need not be damned by it. A pleasant enough, light sex farce that brings an American touch of wackiness to a French-style exercise in sin, it concerns the wife of a shipping tycoon and the schoolmaster husband of a librarian. Each summer, while the tycoon is in South America and the librarian apparently buried in the stacks, their spouses put slipcovers over their morals and spend two secret months together in New York. United by authorship as well as ardor, they write bestsellers under the name of Janus...