Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sin & Expiation. Henry and Annette would not have left so many letters if they had not been forced to spend half their lives apart-he, sitting in the fetid courtroom "jabbering Bengali 6 or 7 hours every day with the artful dodgers;" she, reviving her pallid children in the cool hills of Darjeeling and Mussoorie; when the children were taken to school in England both had to be separated from them. "We (excuse me dear)," wrote Henry at last, "are so old that we may not see much of our children or they of us if we wait till...
...here that the story's solution to the problem of the irresponsible individual is weakest. Joe's sin was in insulating himself from the consciousness of his acts to society until it was too late to do anything more than expiate his crimes. True, the expiation provides the framework for a grim demonstration of the way moral justice embodied in his son breaks through his isolation. But the authors true to the classic tragedy, could find no other way of solving the riddle of society, which must deal with such individuals, or that of the sinner, than...
...election year, Hollywood has come up with a time-honored favorite son. And so long as Frank Capra sticks to the original Crouse and Lindsey stage play, his treatment is entertaining. The story of the airplane builder who runs for president and discovers that "he must approve everything except sin" has been filmed true to script. Spencer Tracy blusters sufficiently for a man who jumps into politics over his neck and gradually discovers that handing out golden platitudes on silver platters is a tricky business. He winces effectively as his managers tell him that people are nice but they...
...Vatican's majestic citadel. Perhaps the most significant political event of recent times was the Vatican's decision, while waiting for the City of God, to fight once more for the City of Man. It had openly entered politics. Italian priests issued a solemn warning: Communism is sin. Could the Communists stand up against such a moral thunderbolt...
...Christians who would listen, that they were not atheists at all. They had all but dropped the hammer & sickle as a party emblem, used pictures of Garibaldi instead. To others, they simply promised houses, land, food; many Italians could not understand why voting for such things was a sin. They had developed the egotism of misery, like the sufferers in the Inferno whom Dante described as "that caitiff choir of the angels, who were not rebellious, nor were faithful to God; but were for themselves...