Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entitled to be accorded by his fellow men a chance to rehabilitate himself. But what will the public think about him? He never has publicly conceded that the jury was right in convicting him of perjury. In the eyes of many people therefore, he has not atoned for his sin. The jury's judgment was based to no small extent on the flat statement by Hiss that he never was a Communist. Since his trial, another witness-Nathaniel Weyl -who broke with the Communists has stated under oath that he personally saw Hiss paying Communist dues several times...
...Shakespeare, Goethe, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Twain, Dickens, Joyce, Mann and the rest." These, he says, were all inward storms. "Lust was in their creations, also vast and devouring if nameless hungers, as well as cosmic yearnings, strange thirsts, occult sensations, murderous rages, vengeful fantasies and imaginings that catalogue all of sin and crime. But, unlike the sorry six from Brooklyn and New Zealand, in them these impulses were contained within the skin's envelope, merely felt and suffered in the private agony of a tormenting preadulthood...
...Sin & Self-Sufficiency. In 1945 Dr. Coffin retired as head of Union, but kept on preaching and writing. Last week, at 77, still a light to lighten that race of "men of adventurous spirit" he had pledged himself to foster at Union, he died-on Thanksgiving...
...Thanksgiving Day sermon Dr. Coffin preached ten years ago. Americans, he said, were always "self-reliant, not to say cocky," but only "penitent, pardoned and therefore truly humble Americans" would do any good in the world. It was a favorite theme of his: "Selfsufficiency is the very essence of sin ... What a lot of rubbish has been written about being masters of our fate and captains of our soul! We have not realized that in threescore years and ten, man does not pass much beyond the kindergarten stage . . . Let a man be aware that he is and has nothing...
...their retreat from reality-room after room in which anyone has died. A wily, bigoted aunt first keeps the girl from running away with her lover. Then she forces the girl to confront her lover's neurotic wife and to grasp that beyond her own Catholic problem of sin, her lover is still bound by strong conjugal ties. When the girl turns imploringly to her great-uncle in his wheelchair, he tries-but in vain-to offer something more than mere platitudes and catchwords of faith; and the suffering girl commits suicide...