Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany's Christians in 1945, but he has attacked the Allied trials of German war criminals as "unjustified." He has denounced Communism, but cautiously refuses to make common cause with the Western democracies in their fight against it. His logic is brilliant, but he hates organized philosophy "like sin." These seeming paradoxes, like Dibelius, are unmistakably German and Lutheran...
...scenes such as this that have led Publishers Farrar, Straus & Young to ballyhoo Prince Bart as "the most explosive novel" they have ever published. So loud are the explosions, in fact, that the message of the novel is almost drowned out: Author Kennedy argues that sin is increasing in modern society, and he is against it. This puts him about midway between Philip Wylie and Kathleen Winsor, except that he lacks Wylie's literary stature and writes worse than Winsor...
...Vincent has been retired for incompetence, as Dulles implies, the Secretary of State should publicize these mistakes. Incompetence is a lesser sin than disloyalty, and a few senators believe that Dulles is glossing over details to prevent any more probing into Vincent's past activities...
...Tiny Sin. When the protocols arrived at Bonn, West Germany Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was abed with the flu, but he bestirred himself long enough to flash an S O S to Washington. If Paris insisted on the changes, he warned, EDC may be delayed so long that its chances of approval in West Germany-now fairly certain-will be wiped away in this June's national elections...
Property Right. In Lewes, England, dismissing assault charges against Norman Hyde, who had slugged a fellow pub patron for trying to down his beer, a judge ruled that "drinking another man's beer is the unforgivable sin...