Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fine performance as a psycho-neurotic refugee by Eleanora Mendelssohn and some good murder scenes are the main features of "The Secret Room." These are also a pair of unusually good child actresses, whose lines and behavior almost completely avoid that theatrical sin, cuteness...
...mind," he wrote in a book called The Meaning of Intelligence, "are the persons whose intact brains, giving the highest promise up through childhood, . . . have been so systematically drugged with the vapors of dogma, superstition and pseudo logic. . . . Man-made concepts, such as devils, witches, taboos, hellfire, original sin . . . and divine revelation . . . have distorted the intellectual processes of millions of persons...
Last week a group of Illinois churchmen, led by conservative Roman Catholic Bishop James A. Griffin of Springfield, vehemently agreed. Said Bishop Griffin: "We want to know what we're paying for. . . . Thousands of [Dr. Stoddard's] future students believe in the objective validity of [original sin and hell]. . . . He will evidently try to dispossess his charges of their feeble-mindedness." Said the Bishop: the new president should make a profession of faith. Replied Dr. Stoddard, who will not take office until next July: "We need more religion rather than more theologies. . . . Frankly, I should be much happier...
...Russians deserved much of the blame. But the others were not without sin. The U.S. delegation was badly briefed. Within the delegation, sharp differences developed. To some observers, Byrnes gave the impression of a man who had already convinced himself that Europe's problems were insoluble. This attitude encouraged the Russians to doubt that a strong U.S. position would be maintained very long...
...later expanded the name to "Orphan Annie, your playmate." (She never used Tokyo Rose, the G.I. name for her. ) It was all a lie, also, she insisted, that she had opened her program by saying: "Good evening again to the . . . forgotten men, the American fighting men. . . ." The wages of sin, in her case, were 100 yen ($6.60) a month, later raised to 147 yen. Just what the punishment will be, if any, the U.S. had not yet announced. (Her defense attorneys would undoubtedly bring up the U.S. Navy's silly-season award to her for raising the morale...