Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bells that Aggie Hogan sewed in the hems of her dresses ring softly and sadly throughout William Alfred's Hogan's Goat. Though never seen in the play, and dead by the middle of the first act, she lives on as the persisting memory of sin which drives Alfred's characters to tragedy...
...late Matt Murphy, who defended Wilkins at the last trial, Attorney Arthur Hanes told the jury it had to choose between the "Judas goat," Gary Rowe, and the "scapegoat," Collie Wilkins. If you do not vote for conviction, countered Attorney General Flowers, "the blood of this man's sin will stain your county for eternity...
...Golden Age of sijo, says Translator Pai, began in 1456 and lasted for 150 years. Created by courtiers, many of these poems conceal political metaphors, but more and more often a personal note is sounded. Yi Sun-sin, the brilliant admiral who invented the ironclad and routed the Japanese fleet in 1592, described the loneliness of leadership...
...little dirty. Maybe the Incarnate God was truly present in that man's need and asking us for something better than a smirk. (I started to say "More truly human than a smirk..." but I don't know about that. We are beginning to believe deeply in original sin: theirs and ours...
...poor is not the duty of just the rich or the church but also of the state. "Paupers are everywhere!" she cried after a tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness was the real sin-which in the U.S. developed into the Puritan ethic that virtuous people are bound to prosper and the slothful will earn the bitter reward of poverty. Less than a century ago, Henry Ward Beecher thundered: "No man in this land suffers from poverty unless it be more than his fault-unless...