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...Your story about vengeance in Sicily [Oct. 30] aroused thoughts in me of other "honorable" countries in the Middle East. Here, honor can only be reinstated by the slaying of the female sinner by the nearest blood relative, without even inquiring as to the identity of the male lover. To make the "washing out of shame"-as this kind of murder is called -more effective, it is carried out by a hand-wielded instrument such as a dagger, which is then handed to the police, dripping with blood. Maria's fate should have been sealed by her father with...
ROGER AND OUT (Smash). Roger Miller is the noisiest sinner in or out of Nashville. He spent the grocery money and half the rent on liquor and then jammed the air waves confessing. "Dang me, they ought to take a rope and hang me," he keeps singing. Nobody is arguing with him, but so far the only action against him has been taken by Ruby Wright, who sings an answer to Dang Me called Dern Ya. In the meanwhile Miller has gone on writing songs like those that fill this album, e.g., Squares Make the World Go Round...
...SINNER...
...bleak crossroads town on the Canadian prairie, now of the small, ugly ways in which her body, at 90, has betrayed her. As she daydreams and chatters and lurches through the novel, she traces one of the most convincing-and the most touching-portraits of an unregenerate sinner declining into senility since Sara Monday went to her reward in Joyce Gary's The Horse's Mouth...
Christianity may call all men sinners. Not Rilke. "Perhaps I am not a sinner," he would...