Word: sinners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...priest, and with his wife, Elsa. During his matrimonial happiness, John had once been faithless in a moment of pity for an abused woman. The dramatic point lies in the question of whether his wife shall be told of the incident in the end of the novel and the sinner forgiven. The rational self calls such a solution sentimental and urges an ironic conclusion, the wife dead, the confession unuttered. The other woman, a friend of both, relates the story in disguise to form the wife; then Loving discusses this point with his wife in relation to the two possible...
...briefly ruled a region as large as France because he was faster on the draw than any other man in it"; Elfego Baca, Mexican bravo who got a sheriff's job by standing off a posse of Texan sharpshooters for 36 hours; many another border saint & sinner, hero & villain. Of the Penitentes, pseudo-Christian sect of flagellants, Fergusson tells bloody tales, bloodier rumors. The sect still flourishes (TIME, April 17). Its headquarters are in Mora and most of its membership within New Mexico. In almost every Mexican village, says Fergusson. there is an apparently deserted building, the Morada, headquarters...
...mainland nearly killed him. Then he found himself in the midst of a crazy colony of foreigners whose erotic antics were hardly a help in furthering his own love affair. Caterina remained so businesslike, not to say calculating, that Mr. Belfry was not nearly so great a sinner as he would have liked to be. But he had enough Anglo-Saxon marrow to keep from going completely spineless, and finally took himself back to Cambridge and a well-ordered life...
...Barry case paddles its way through the backwaters of the Senate Judiciary committee, a vindicated body of national representatives resumes its interrupted ritual and marks time until today at 4 P.M., when it will again have the opportunity to establish its dignity by clever thrusts at a bewildered sinner...
While managing editor of London's Sunday Express (he does not name it, calls it simply "perhaps the most Virile and progressive London newspaper"). Sinner Russell's newsy nose became aware of a new religious movement at Oxford. He investigated it and it converted him. What he tells will mostly be old stuff to Buchmanites, but onlooking sinners will welcome this thoroughgoing if diffuse report on the Methodism of our day. Buchmanism, much more respectable than it was a few years ago, is apparently much less preoccupied by sex-sensationalism. Says Russell. "The words purity and impurity...