Word: sinner
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...induce a dizziness curable in the stability of the marriage contract, which stipulates a spouse to whom one can come home, and confess. External order, the ordering of artifacts and bodies, counterbalances internal confusion. The bourgeois rebels are "normal" after all. Skinner provides hands to catch the falling sinner...
Even so, SRI insists that its researchers were not duped. "Whether the subject be a saint or a sinner," said an SRI spokesman, "has nothing to do with our measurements concerning the so-called psychical awareness of individuals." How objective those measurements were may well become apparent this week at a Columbia University colloquium in Manhattan, where Targ is scheduled to report on his studies and show a film of Geller in action...
...shame! Even though her own people "denounced her as a sinner and a whore," you glamorized the actions of Liv Ullmann...
Many Norwegians, less sexually liberated than their Swedish neighbors, were scandalized by Liv's unmarried motherhood. They harassed her in much the same way as Americans had harassed Ingrid Bergman 22 years before. Letters came in denouncing her as a sinner and a whore. Some told her that she should take the baby into the woods and leave it; others kindly suggested that she should kill herself as well. The Lutheran Church refused to allow the baby to be baptized. Liv went on Norwegian TV to defend her action in an emotion-charged statement. Though she still believes...
...like Jesus Christ...Ever since I was a little child, I have hated him." Aghast, the bishop asks, "What? Such a kind, gentle God? How is this possible?" After the bishop administers the last sacraments to a man, who, it happens, killed his father and mother, saying to the sinner, "God in his kindness forgives the most hardened criminals," he then murders...