Word: sinner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sixth novel Read has traveled abroad and into history for a theme, attempting to write what could be thought of as his Brothers Karamazov, Polish-style. Stefan Kornowski−saint, sinner, intellectual−is Alyosha-Dmitri-Ivan all in one. The son of a ruined count, he moves into a shabby Warsaw apartment when the family country home is lost in the late 1920s. But while his sister, 17, goes to work in a jeweler's shop, Stefan, 15, manages the ultimate Dostoyevskian luxury: "Playing the role of the sort of person he ought to be." He dabbles...
MICHIGAN: SINNER BUT A WINNER...
...passionate jealousy of Othello with the impetuous tyranny of Macbeth, we meet him again as a reformed, peaceful hero who has done penance for 16 years. And he is a hero, despite all his early evildoing. As the Luke gospel says: "Joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance." When Leontes reappears, his blond hair now whitened. Kerr makes him immediately sympathetic and speaks beautifully and movingly. When the "statue" moves to greet him (and Shakespeare tells us not to worry how we got to this...
Hill Glee. For almost any other Congressman, such an emotional admission would have yielded a measure of forgiveness. But the acidulous Hays is the kind of sinner who has been casting stones at others throughout his 28-year career in Congress. He put it well himself, almost boasting to the House that he was "mean, arrogant, cantankerous and tough," and noting that he had also been called "ruthless, coldblooded, vicious and temperamental." Thus there was ill-disguised glee on Capitol Hill at his indecent exposure...
Sing-Alongs. Wherever the orchestra travels, it is divided into two busloads, one called the Saints (for nonsmoking Mormons) and the other the Sinners (for tobacco-loving musicians). The conductor, affectionately nicknamed "Big Mo" by his players, usually travels by car, avoiding any show of favoritism; although a non-Mormon, he is also a nonsmoker. If constant traveling does breed a unique togetherness, it also reveals the peculiar schism between the Mormons and other members of the orchestra. Aboard the Saints' bus, the majority of passengers are women, mostly string players who have been with the orchestra for years...