Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salt Lake City Willkie made a minor boner. Newsmen, with Utah mining and cattlemen in mind, asked Willkie his position on high tariffs. Said Wendell Willkie: obviously, he was against them. Then he added: "Asking me that is like asking me if I favor sin." Around high-tariff-minded, sin-conscious Utah went word that Willkie thought all tariffs and sin synonymous...
...White Mind. "America is continuously struggling for its soul. . . . The American . . . is strongly and sincerely 'against sin,' even, and not least, his own sins. He investigates his faults, puts them on record, and shouts them from the housetops, adding the most severe recriminations against himself. . . . Americans accuse themselves, and are accused by others, of being materialists. But they are equally extreme in the other direction. . . . This young nation is the least cynical of all nations...
Aldous Huxley ranks these works with other final achievements of great artists-Beethoven's last quartets, the last poems of Yeats, the later paintings of El Greco. In the Goyas, Huxley sees a vision of "the unplumbed depths of original sin and original stupidity. . . . We are in a world of demons, witches and familiars . . . wholly disquieting inasmuch as it reveals the sort of thing that goes on in the squalid catacombs of the human mind...
...housecleaning. She says a little about her career, explains why she has been laying off movies lately, confining herself to a yearly ten-week personal appearance tour. She is tired, she says, of playing the gay belle of the Gay '90s. She turned down the leading roles in Sin Town and Pittsburgh because they didn't come up to snuff. Meanwhile she has written two plays and a novel. She is going to call the novel Joe Casanova...
...into the soles of his boots so that when he knelt in the streets people would be reminded of the Salvation Army. But some people were unregenerate. Mobs often stoned the Salvationists, threw rotten eggs, refuse. Says Parker reminiscently: "They had a lot of vitality mixed up with their sin...