Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Furnished rooms, cafeterias, pet cemeteries, and empty stares are the boundaries of the world The Savage Eye shows us with so much anger and so little respect. The effect is enormously depressing. But I wonder if only a kind of sentimentalism could see such total boredom and sin in the faces of these city people. It is hard to see what values the makers of this movie are applying to city life...
...years, Jefferson County grand juries were routinely called; just as routinely they discovered no evidence of sin...
Sleet in Chicago? In Academe, the cardinal sin is open talk about jobs. One never seeks; one is sought. Mostly, this means a labyrinthine feeling-out between men in the same field at different campuses. The nuances are endless. When a dean in sunny Texas asks on the phone, "Is it still sleeting in Chicago?", he may be implying a full-scale job offer. Or he may not; a major gaucherie, of course, is for a professor to react to a feeler that wasn't there...
Encouraged by the laughter greeting his allusion to pregnant virgins, he followed with a garbled version of the jingle that traditionally goes: "Holy Mother, I do believe/That without sin thou didst conceive;/And now, I pray, in thee believing/That I may sin without conceiving...
...days of his Administration, he realized that he had picked the wrong man for Under Secretary of State. Chester Bowles, who was supposed to be tending to administrative work in the State Department, was instead obsessed with big-think solutions to world problems; beyond that, Bowles committed the ultimate sin of disloyalty by letting it be known, after the fact, that he had been against the Cuba venture all along. Kennedy decided to get Bowles out. He invited Bowles down for a swim in the White House pool. Then the two had lunch while Kennedy explained that...