Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want you to spend an adequate amount of time with your husbands/wives & children," he wrote in a staff memo, "and also to involve them as much as possible in our White House life." Smiling broadly, Carter mockingly scolded a group of employees: "Those of you who are living in sin, I hope you will get married. Those of you who have left your spouses, come back home. Those of you who don't know your children's names, get to know them...
...Obscenity is like the concept of sin-it defies definition," he says. "If we start restricting adult reading habits by what's fit for children, we could be left with only Little Red Riding-Hood. "Says William Shawn, editor of the chaste New Yorker: "This is a very serious threat. In this instance it has to do with taste, but ultimately it has to do with what our attitudes are. In a free society nobody should be the judge...
...physically, in the painting but that are hard to verbalize. (The catalogue, a magnificent opus of scholarship and reproductions, strives bravely to do so and comes up with some hilarious erudite observations: "the particular hose-like configuration of the branches presupposes the influence of a follower of Wang Shih-sin.") The art of learning to recognize these subtleties is perhaps what "connoisseurship"--a word scented with elegant perfume, fine wine and elitism--is all about...
...doesn't think highly of Barry Fell's word lists. Goddard, who is an authority on Algonquin languages, says Fell's work in that area is "full of errors of analysis and interpretation. He has trouble getting Indian words and their glosses right, he mixes languages together [a cardinal sin in comparative linguistics]...There is not even a vague inkling of enough resemblances to require an historical explanation...
...slavery was America's original sin. Roots, for all its soap opera, sex and violence, seems to have had a certain expiatory effect. From the various mythic provinces of TV, which may be the densest core of American imagination now, are gathered a virtuous and likable group of heroes: Pa Cartwright from the Ponderosa, Lou Grant from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, affable Sergeant Enright from MacMillan and Wife and sweet Sandy Duncan from the apartment upstairs. But in Roots, they all turn counterfeit-treacherous, violent and contemptible. Only one white, Old George, is sympathetic. The blacks are noble...