Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former work. Rather, it strikes one as being a carbon copy, slightly blurred at the edges, of "Singermann." The failure this time of the author to portray this particular phase of the American scene is primarily due of the American scene is primarily due to the besetting sin of his reliance on "local color." Mr. Brinig has grown up in the city he pictures, he knows its legends and its individuality at first hand--and he had done nothing more than photograph them. He makes no attempt to interpret the originality of his scene, but is content merely to reproduce...
...Catholicism to the Protestants' report. Archbishop Curley called it a "confession of moral bankruptcy." Bishop Dunn quoted His Holiness, Pope Pius XI: "Since, therefore, the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of children, those who in exercising it deliberately frustrate its natural power and purpose, sin against nature and commit a deed which is shameful and in- trinsically vicious. . . . No reason, however grave, may be put forward by which anything against nature may become conformable to nature and morally good." (TIME...
...impassioned speech, Lord Strickland charged that the Roman Catholic clergy of Malta, in an effort to control the elections, have pronounced it a mortal sin to vote for Malta's Constitutional or Labor Parties. This charge, and the Roman Catholic one that Lord Strickland has interfered with the authority of Pope Pius XI over the Maltese priesthood (TIME, June 2 et seq.) chiefly constitute the "Maltese Question...
...lawyer wanted to show the actors the town's chief relic, an ancient bucket; but the priest had the key, refused to give it up. Feeling ran high; there were fist fights; the fortunes of war wavered. In desperation Don Taddeo even set fire to the inn where Sin kept wakeful nights. In the end he surrendered the key, confessed himself beaten; the bucket was displayed. After four Dionysiac weeks the opera company departed. Shouted Lawyer Belotti: "What are we? A little town. What did these guests bring us? A little music. And yet-we have felt enthusiasm...
...realize that "but for the grace of God" most of the rest of us (possibly even the august editors of TIME) would be in as embarrassing predicaments. I mean by that: we've been born with cooler natures and brought up with sterner standards, yet who is without sin...