Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pretty Dreary Sin. The Government laboratories' good pay scales-professionals average $12,000 and 72% of other employees earn more than $5,000 a year-also make poverty unknown in Los Alamos. Most families have two cars and could afford better housing if it were available. Because of their comfortable incomes, uniform backgrounds and treelined, planned neighborhoods, some Los Alamos citizens have referred to their community as "a suburb without...
...Alamos residents have formed a disproportionately large number of social clubs (which concentrate on such specialized activities as bird watching, chess and classical music), also hike, ride-200 families own horses-and read extensively. Says Unitarian Minister Robert Lehman: "It is a self-conscious model town where such sin as exists is pretty dreary...
...careful of the wife you pick." A 65-year-old widowed Reb, or teacher, and 50 times a grandfather, Blau has been forced to surrender leadership of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox sect known as the Neturei Karta (Guardians of the City) for the scandal and sin of marrying shy, devout Ruth Ben-David, 45, who is not only a divorced woman but a convert from Catholicism as well...
...Fletcher called it a "blot on our statute book." Denis Healey angrily echoed the words of the Times: "The bill strikes at the roots of Britain's traditional liberal attitude towards immigration, at the preservation of good Commonwealth relations, and at the belief that Britain is without original sin in the matter of color discrimination." Healey's pledge: Labor would repeal the act if it came back to power...
Hardly Any Sinner. Experiments along this line are already going on. In some Dutch parishes, a general confession is included in the Mass, although penitents are also expected to confess their sins privately to the priest in order to receive absolution. In Germany, some theologians feel that frequent confession is no longer necessary, on the theory that most Catholics hardly ever commit a sin serious enough to justify it. Catholics, they say, should be free to rely on their own consciences and receive Com munion without first making a confession. Normally, Catholic children today make their first confession and receive...