Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...headquarters, he remembered. He marked off II Chronicles, Chapter 7, starting with the 14th verse: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land...
Confronted with the horrible example of Editor Fedoseev, nearly 1,000 Soviet economists and writers gathered at a mass meeting in Moscow last week to confess in public their sin of having once praised the works of Nikolai A. Voznesensky...
...Made Me. The critics brushed it off with mild praise; a writer whose pages steamed with so much excitement could not also be significant. When a U.S. publisher imported the book, it sold exactly 933 copies. But now that Graham Greene has become famous as a literary analyst of sin and salvation, it is being reissued as The Shipwrecked...
Nobel Prizewinner Francois Mauriac, the Roman Catholic novelist, who is much preoccupied with sin, delivered himself last week of a pessimistic commentary on French politics. "We must conclude," he wrote on the front page of Le Figaro, "that the French people are able to secrete only a certain species of parliamentarianism, and that their bad habits are closely linked with their character. The saying that character is destiny applies to peoples as well as to individuals...
Novelist Graham Greene has said of her Vipers oj Milan (a melodramatic yarn where sin triumphs over virtue), which he read as a child: "From that moment I began to write . . . It was as if I had been supplied once and for all with a subject...