Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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commits no sin...
...highly convincing, but your treatment of Eisenhower seemed to contradict the opening distinction you made between present-day "hardened" Liberalism and careful independence of mind. To one who still has what he feels to be the best of reasons in favoring the General, you seemed guilty of one intellectual sin you deplored, "the Big Oversimplification." To cite at least three instances of this: (1) "On foreign affairs, where he is meant to be an expert, all Eisenhower has offered is a restatement of Democratic policy on Europe, in terms just different enough to cause havoc abroad." It would appear that...
...novelist, François Mauriac has two sides: 1) the urbane Frenchman who analyzes love with the detachment of a metaphysician, and 2) the devout Roman Catholic who wrestles with sin...
Piglets for Rahabaat. The natives have all the sins of the senses, but no sense of sin. They worship Rahabaat, a god who lives in the local volcano, with frank fertility rites. When Sam preaches his Vermont fundamentalism at the men, they giggle and slip away into the underbrush. When Irma tries to clothe the women in sacklike dresses of her own design, they cut holes in the tops to bare their breasts. After a brief vogue, even this ventilated version goes out of fashion. When the natives hear of Irma's virginity, they laughingly...
Author Wilson seems to see his novel as a modern morality play. In its terms, vulgarity is evil, good taste is grace, "to let life bore you" is the cardinal sin, and no one is ever saved from anything. His crisp prose style and his deft aim with the acid of satire keep his novel from being pointlessly sordid. But as the parade of homosexual flirts, pimps and spivs crosses its pages, it becomes uncertain whether Author Wilson is exploring the lower depths of England or of Hell...