Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sent him there-or circumstantial evidence and a bamboozled jury. In fact, The Walk Home is best read as a sort of historical travelogue rather than a novel. It tells a reader all he needs to know-or will want to-of a semibarbarous land and time when a Sin-Eater was still summoned to the side of the dead to draw out the last vestiges of evil...
...Moss, chairman of the special House subcommittee on Government information, "experienced a degree of Government news management which is unique in peacetime, a disturbing period of unplanned and unprecedented news management." Moss's charge was not without repeated precedent: he has taxed previous Administrations with much the same sin...
...committed the unpardonable sin of dismissing Richard Dyer-Bennet in one sentence as an "arty eclectic." The likes of Joan Baez could not even hold his guitar...
...reported plans for the second annual Christmas parade, featuring "seven bands, 18 floats, clowns, entertainers, riders on horseback"; and the sounds and sights of building were everywhere. And all this good clean fun, all this civic enterprise, was taking place in what was. not too long ago, the tawdriest sin city left...
...good/' is very much present in modern novels and plays, writes Evelyn Waugh. It is personified by the man who lost his faith "as though faith were an extraneous possession like an umbrella, which can be inadvertently left behind in a railway-carriage." Waugh also argues that a sin closely allied to sloth, pigritia (slackness), is gaining: people have "'no time' to read or cook or even to dress decorously, while in their offices and workshops they do less and less, in quality and quantity. for ever larger wages with which to pay larger taxes for services...