Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only to treat the authors in question on his own terms but also to estimate the contributions of his fellow critics on the same subjects. For instance, his review of Van Wyck Brooks' The Flowering of New England gives him the opportunity to denounce what he considers a cardinal sin--concentration by the critic on a writer's life rather than on his work. ("The book Walden in mentioned specifically, in four passing sentences though there is repeated reference to it as a pond.") Similarly, in a review of Bernard DeVoto's Mark Twain at Work, he ends with...
...written into church law, their exact application varies according to diocese. In Providence, R.I. last week, Bishop Russell J. McVinney gave the people of his diocese one of the most severe interpretations of divorce laws yet laid down. Among them: ¶Catholic lawyers are forbidden "under pain of mortal sin" to represent plaintiffs in suits for separation, divorce or annulment of a marriage performed by a Catholic priest, unless they obtain prior permission of their bishop...
...words, but they love it." The Daily Mail's Don Iddon called Stevenson "dazzling and delightful," adding: "His manner is more British than American, and this could be a handicap [in the U.S.]. Already his harassed enemies are suggesting that Stevenson has an English accent-a most shameful sin." Reported the Daily Telegraph's Malcolm Muggeridge: "He derives from the tradition of Henry Adams, and a century ago might well have preferred to transfer himself across the Atlantic to survey the New World from the Old." Said the Sunday Times: Stevenson "already has much of the clean...
...Franco had the last word: "The existence of the Falange is a necessity for the very life of Spain," he said. Echoed the official Falange daily, Arriba: "The Falange saved Spain from the sin of Liberalism. We have won a supreme right which cannot be canceled, no matter how strong the wind blows...
...like Americans. . . and I proved it a hundred times during the war. . . Their souls are pure, much purer than ours. I like the Americans. . . because they believe that Christ is always on the side of those who are in the right, because they believe that it is a sin to be in the wrong...