Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have consistently supported McCarthy when he worked at routing Communists and their sympathizers from the bureaus which were reluctant to fire them. But like many superior specialists, McCarthy has been guilty of the sin of pride. In his deliberate challenge to President Eisenhower, McCarthy made a false political assumption. Unquestionably he is convinced that he can take over the leadership of a conservative faction and perhaps make headway with a third party. But McCarthy has shown no talent whatever for party leadership...
...such masking in their ears . . . such giving them pippins to pass the time: such playing at foot-saunt without cards: such tickling, such toying, such smiling, such winking, and such manning them home"-that a Puritan preacher, Thomas White, was moved to reason how "The cause of plagues is sin, if you look to it well: and the cause of sin are plays: therefore the cause of plagues are plays...
...excitement grew and spread. In Phenix City (Alabama's "sin city" on the Georgia boundary), there was a rumor that the fireball was a flying saucer and that at least one invader from space had been seen bailing out of it. Most other observers thought it was a burning airplane. Acting on this theory, Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery sent 40 airplanes crisscrossing Alabama, looking for the wreckage. When Air Force authorities learned that the black stone had scored a hit on Mrs. Hodges, they sent a helicopter, which landed in the Sylacauga schoolyard...
...transcendent meanings, and catch them, like mysteriously luminous fish, in a well-spread net of images. The result is something less than Greene's brilliant attempt to plumb the nature of pity; but it is at least a cruelly beautiful picture of a man who made a sin of saintliness...
...loves another. And haunting him every moment is the sense that two women now, not just one, hold him to blame, as Scobie blames himself, for their unhappiness. A crime against Heaven, added to his crimes against men, seals Scobie's fate. He takes Communion, while in mortal sin, in order to hide that mortal sin from his wife. With the despair of the damned, he determines to commit suicide. "God, condemn me!" he cries. "But give rest unto them!" The ironies that ricocheted so savagely through Greene's final pages are all forsaken in the film...