Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NOTION OF SIN (217 pp.)-Robert McLaughin-Simon & Schuster...
...superficially smart. Although he never preaches, and the explicit statement of his theme never rises above the pitch of party talk, the reader is not allowed to forget the book's title; it would be a different story if any of the characters really had a notion of sin...
...great 15th century painter Hieronymus Bosch was much obsessed with sin and hell; his best-known paintings are populated by griffons, scarabs and demons in a fantastic landscape in which sinners ride on mice, embrace pigs, are bound, speared and tortured by horrifying monsters. Lustful monks and covetous priests are spied on by lurking demons. Only rarely, as in The Crowning with Thorns in London's National Gallery, did Bosch allow himself to show the tenderness that was the obverse of his savage indignation about the human Bettmann Arc condition...
...Ingolf) Romnes, 52, was elected president of Western Electric Co., manufacturing arm of A. T. & T., to succeed the late Arthur B. Goetze. Son of a Norwegian immigrant baker, Romnes went to work for the Bell System installing telephones during his senior year at the University of Wiscon sin, joined A. T. & T. when he graduated in 1928. Romnes became A. T. & T. chief of engineering in 1952, a vice president...
...Miller is interested here in "the sin of public terror" (his phraseology is a pretty good indication of where he stands on the matter), which was an even more vital issue when The Crucible was written than it is now. He indulges in no hindsight, and loads his play with no over-obvious parallels to contemporary events--though the audience is not discouraged from drawing parallels itself. But his play demonstrates impressively that when a man reasons from certain premises, it is inevitable for him to conclude that all opposition to the government is treason...