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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...
...sinner, he does not amount to much, but he does have that Nazi busi ness to brood about...
...back to the city I called my friend Buster, who thought I'd vanished for two weeks. I told him to pick me up (I was at the Hearst house again) and not ask any questions. In twenty minutes he drove up in his V.W. and a meek, frightened sinner crawled into the front seat. I tried to explain my story to him but I was undergoing culture shock and was virtually incomprehensible. When we went out with his friends later I winced at four letter words and sexual allusions, couldn't converse sensibly, and was basically a zombie...
...first Holy Year took place in 1300, when Pope Boniface VIII decreed a year known as the "Jubilee," after the Old Testament practice in which debts were forgiven every 50th year. In this case, however, the pardon was from penalties incurred through sin. In Catholic belief, the sinner was freed from eternal punishment (hell) through the sacrament of Penance. But temporal punishment (on earth or in purgatory) remained, and it could be removed in full by an indulgence granted to Holy Year pilgrims by the Pope, who controlled an "inexhaustible" treasury of the merits of Christ, Mary and the saints...