Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cardinal Sin. With Sands gone, the life goes out of Hemlock and After. Author Wilson adds an epilogue in which a strangely recovered Mrs. Sands splices up the novel's loose ends and packs Ma Curry and her crew off to jail...
...Alcohol Sin? The All-Drys opened up with a learned distillation of the theology of antialcoholism. "Drunkenness," cried Belgian All-Dry Abbe Maas in summation, "is a mortal sin." Then the medicine men got down to figures. In Sweden, said Gunnar Nelker, ten times as many alcoholics get divorces as nonalcoholics. The industrial accident rate in Germany, rumbled Professor Otto Graf, is three times as high among heavy drinkers as it is among abstainers. But it was the French Half-Wrets who proved to be the experts on alcoholism. "Instead of returning to his squalid home," said Professor Charles Foulen...
...quietly to preserve the Basque consciousness of their people, as well as certain moral freedoms generally overlooked in the rest of Spain. A year ago, during serious anti-government strikes in the Basque provinces, Spanish bishops were warning priests to tell the people that such striking was a mortal sin. One of Aranzazu's Franciscans, speaking from the pulpit, countered: "The right to strike without violence is a right granted by God as one of man's natural freedoms...
...Hang On? The odds against Naguib are formidable. Reform in Egypt (or anywhere else in the Middle East) is not simply a matter of passing laws against sin. Corruption is not only the result of greediness among the rich; to millions, it is almost a way of life, prompted by insecurity, hopelessness, and fear of what tomorrow may bring-or take away. To sweep out corruption, as he has promised, Naguib will have to break the stubborn power of the landowning pashas, who are fighting him every inch of the way; he will also have to rebuild Egyptian society from...
...thing to regret divorce-I regret them all. It is quite another to say that good men and women, lawfully married a second time, are 'living in sin' . . . Next time a respectable statesman who has had an unhappy life seeks comfort in a second marriage, I hope that Portugal Street will keep quiet about 'Our Lord's authority...