Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wages. If Picasso's play is opaque, there is nothing obscure about The Wages of Sin, by U Nu, Prime Minister of Burma. Playwright Nu has been produced in the U.S. before-his The People Win Through was once presented at the Pasadena Playhouse in California-and U Nu is still pounding away at the same theme: the evil of Communism and how to combat it. The Wages of Sin will be given its U.S. première on the East Carolina campus this week, with a Louisianaborn history professor playing U Po Lone, a Burmese government minister...
...little goat," Lloyd George, and thinks "free trade" is the major issue of the day. There is also Jeremy, a cynical Tory friend from Oxford, who, thanks to Freud, is also "a member of the first generation in the whole history of the human race completely to disbelieve in sin." He gibes at Augustine for "his rooted dislike of ever giving orders." "Can't you see it's intolerable for the ruled themselves when the ruling class abdicates?" he asks, and predicts that Augustine's head will fall into the laps of the village tricteuses...
...millions of otherwise rational people believe that the motions of the planets have profound control over human affairs. So many people try to read the future from the stars that even the Vatican weekly, Osservatore della Domenica, was moved to warn that serious belief in astrology is a "grave sin." The astrological faithful attach special importance to conjunctions,* which bring two or more planets close together. On the rare occasions when all seven huddle close, astrologers believe (or say they believe) that the end of the world is near...
...deeply about the causes of the French defeat. Some veterans, like Colonel Jean Gardes (now chief of ordnance for the S.A.O.), held seminars to devise answers to Red tactics. Infused with his own brand of religious mysticism, Gardes would pose such questions as "Can one indulge in torture without sin?" His conclusion: "Yes, provided you are torturing a Communist or a Communist suspect...
...Missing Bedrock. Morgan concedes that there have always been skeptics. But in the past, there always "remained a substratum of theologically integrated assumptions to which reference could be meaningfully made": monotheism, moral order, afterlife, sin. But modern man has rejected the assumptions, and even when he goes to church, he is deeply infected by doubt. He knows that "for millennia his ancestors lived in an era with other bedrock assumptions than his own, an era which can be called Hebrew-Christian." but modern man "no longer lives in that era, and what is more, he no longer wants...