Word: sinner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus, as it has every spring since the Middle Ages, began one of the world's most brutally powerful Easter Week processions. The hooded figure was that of a conscience-stricken French sinner whose identity was known only to the local curate, Father Jean Baptiste Scuitti. From wherever he had come, the man was there voluntarily to atone for his sins by enacting the role of Christ making his way to Calvary. To Corsicans, as always, he was known only as Le Catenacciu (The Enchained...
...satirist, Lillian Hellman can still be cuttingly observant despite the familiarity of her targets, but she lacks the moral suasion of satire that comes from being half in love with what one loathes, cherishing the sinner while hating the sin. Her transparent disgust with her characters and all their works is contagious. Technically, she borrows from Edward Albee and the theater of the absurd, but the wobbly tone of her play shows that craft will not close a gap between generations. Lillian Hellman is still an arrested child of the '30s, and of its idée fixe that...
...occasional sermons to the prisoners in the Basel jail. He takes great pride in this spiritual work, writing out the prayers for the service and choosing hymns for the prisoners. "When I come before these men," he says, "I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner...
Automatic Sinner Converters...
That's for me, automation! Please order lor this parish the following automatic machines: One sermon writer and preacher, one acolyte trainer, one paperwork machine with built-in duplicator, one parish caller, one sinner converter, one confession hearer and consultant. Both my curate and I are fed up with being human beings in a 70-hour week...