Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conventional topics of the modern reformer. Thus from the annals of 1829 one learns the sad state of affairs: "And what of our youth? Today where one child hails with delight the Sabbath as the day for Bible study, one hundred young immortals are growing up in ignorance and sin." And no less pernicious is the morale of 1843--"It is clear that instead of the unasses of our people improving they are degenerating...
...grant it a halo a priori. "There has indeed been abroad for a full century the curious notion that folk art, as once the King can do no wrong; that folk art is necessarily good art; that the critic who dares to question folk art commits the unpardonable sin." This is undoubtedly true. Ted Shawn might conceivably do setting-up exercises, claim them as an aboriginal dance, and be hailed has even more of a maestro than...
...facts, once obtained, were in the nature of High explosives. South Carolina had been guilty of a flagrant sin of ommission. In pursuing the case to its ultimate conclusion--official inquiry--the World has probably earned as many enemies as friends. Certainly the brotherhood of the press seems to be strained; South Carolina papers retorted that the Pulitzer journal was meddling in other people's business merely for the sake of sensationalism. Very wisely the World took no notice of such accusations other than to comment succinctly on the sensitiveness of the unjust. By their really frenzied editorials, which were...
...sin against the theatre...
...lecture, is deemed by Dean Pound to be "prima facie an undesirable student", and is threatened with expulsion. It is true that all hope is not lost. Perfect behavior on the part of the "undesirable" may avert the consequences of his grave misconduct. But the taint of the original sin remains forever...