Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been the poster boy for one of those "conversions" to heterosexuality ads. I claimed I had "changed," and even got married and fathered a son. But no matter how hard I prayed to change my sexual orientation, no matter how much I believed I could be "delivered" from the sin of homosexuality, I finally had to accept the inevitable. I came out of the closet, left behind a bitter and betrayed wife and watched my son, now 18, struggle with his love for me and the hate he feels toward homosexuals. Unfortunately, I left destruction in my wake...
...Poppea. The outcome, the defiant coronation of Poppea and the happy banishment of Otto and his new girl (Drusilla, ably sung by Genithia Hogges `01), is supposed to be a testament to the power of love as represented by choir boy Amor, but it never really loses the saucy-sin feel that Quilici and D'Amelia develop in the first act. Furthermore, Drusilla and Otto's relationship blooms very suddenly and seems rather flat, although this has more to do with the libretto than with acting...
Another important aspect of the long-distance relationship is to ensure that there is no gratuitous cheating going on while the boyfriend is out of the picture. College is just a den of sin. Any party can lead to the temptation to follow that cute boy from Chem section home to Pennypacker. To ensure that no college boy entices you to forget the love you share with your boyfriend, make sure to look absolutely unattractive at all times. Boys usually appreciate hygiene, so if you cease to bathe and never leave the room unless you are in your smelly flannel...
...commentary on the death of privacy and the growing difficulty of hiding personal peccadilloes, "Sin in the Global Village" [ESSAY, Oct. 19], Robert Wright says the prospect of constant surveillance is terrifying. Allow me the following comment: living in London, I have become exceedingly accustomed to constant surveillance, but who watches over those who watch us? PAUL VAN ZIJL London...
...most vivid characters. Leah is a thoughtful, idealistic beauty who at first idolizes her father, then sees through his pious bluster. Adah, crippled at birth, is a wry, inward-turning genius who refuses to speak but silently reshapes the world in bitter palindromes: "amen enema," and "evil, all; its sin is still alive...