Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town. There Jimmy Reston spent his youth, impressed by Mother Johanna's example of frugality ("She would walk an extra mile to a different grocery store to save 15?"). Johanna had great ambitions for her son. "Make something of yourself," she urged. "It's no sin to be poor, but it's a sin to remain in poverty...
Saved by Prayer. To preserve her son from that sin, Mother Reston took him out of Stivers High School in his junior year and moved the family into a better neighborhood so that Jimmy could be enrolled in Oakwood High. But by then he had discovered golf and his own facility for it-he was Ohio state high school champion in 1927-and the transfer almost did not take. Never a scholar, he neglected books for the links and other pastimes, came so close to dismissal that only the indignant intercession of his mother saved...
...comedies resemble nothing so much as tragedy. A spinster just this side of 70, Novelist Compton-Burnett is a literary cross between Grandma Moses and a Greek Fury. Her plots, characters and settings are primitive, repetitive, even ludicrous, but the insights she extracts from them are as sophisticated as sin...
...marks the confluence of three sacred rivers-the muddy Ganges, the blue Jumna and the invisible Sarasvati, which is supposed to flow underground. Every twelve years, the Hindus celebrate the Kumbh Mela (Urn Festival) at Allahabad, bathing in the waters of the three rivers to cleanse themselves of sin. Every six years there is a slightly smaller Urn Festival. Last week saw the climax of one of the six-year festivals, and perhaps the most unusual Allahabad had ever seen in the way of all-out organization...
...themselves on being 'broad-minded' or 'liberal.' When it came out, I had sheaves of letters on my desk saying, 'How could you know it was like this at the University of Wisconsin or at, oh, Stanford?' I don't suppose that side of Cambridge has changed much: the 'sin of pride...