Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vulgarity for God's Sake? Although the Catholic Church has never quailed from the reality of sin in this world, its movie censors almost ban the depiction of sin from the screen: "The notion, for instance, that sin is always, and very precisely, punished in this life would not appear to be Catholic dogma; yet it is at Catholic insistence that the screen echoes and re-echoes the concept...
...however, it's inexplicable why Jerome Robbins has her call out lines like "I need you" in the middle of a rather pretentious ballet scene. Another highly gifted performer, Maria Karnilova is a torrid Latin in Esther, an energetic vulgarity which set two priests next to me muttering about sin on the American stage...
...Sin & Salvation...
...salvation . . ." Please do not compare Joyce Gary with that genius, Graham Greene. Mr. Greene has set out to "teach" the world. He illustrates the purpose of man and what man is for: namely, the salvation of his soul . . . All Mr. Gary does is to tell us of a particular sin...
...though, have advanced in the current Russian usage, as meaning social equality in contrast to hierarchy of classes. The loss of freedom on the material plane will have been the price of abolition of violence and injustice on the material plane. 'Government is the penalty for original sin.' Given the imperfection of human nature, the only way to abolish strife and injustice on a material plane is to restrict freedom there. In a powerful, healthy, overpopulated world, even the proletarian's freedom to beget children will no longer be his private affair, but will be regulated...