Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sin & Sweden (Contd...
...must thank TIME for several good laughs, all of them, strangely enough, in connection with Sweden. I was amused by the letters received in response to your review of the Swedish film One Summer of Happiness, but the letters on your article "Sin & Sweden" are even funnier . . . The last time I was in Sweden was in 1951. As a young man in search of, let us say, joie de vivre I must confess that I found less of it there than in most countries in which I have traveled...
...Seventh Heaven might bounce to victory the way the equally uninspired Can-Can did. Seventh Heaven does have some reasonably lively dancing and some agreeable sentimental tunes. But it lacks production excitement: Hollywood's Gloria DeHaven and Ricardo Montalban make love seem pleasantly unmemorable, and no one makes sin very thrilling. Sin, in fact, is a good deal more lavendered than scarlet -the hotcha is mostly oo-la-la, the Paris mostly an old-fashioned Gay Paree. The last show of the season, Seventh Heaven might have wound up any season for the past 20 years...
...procedure is not upsetting. He is used to being examined in more funeral settings, complete with invocation ("You will have three hours ...") and benediction ("Gentlemen, this examination is over.") To take an examination without a proctor nearby to hand you bluebooks and save you from the consequences of original sin would seem an invitation to lack of preparation, cheating, and worse...
These Stories of Changing Forms, however brutal, point the moral of Ovid's poem. Mankind is punished for the great sin which the Greeks called hubris-overweening pride. "I am too great for Fortune's power to injure," says arrogant Niobe, proud mother of seven sons and seven daughters. The boast is scarcely uttered, when Apollo looses 14 fatal arrows from his bow. "She would have been happiest of all mothers," comments Ovid, "had she only not thought herself the happiest." Over and above the turn of Fortune's wheel, there is an inexorable change-the passage...