Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wednesday (RKO Radio], starring Harold Lloyd, one of the great comedians of silent pictures, is a curious mixture of high comic invention and low humor. Filmed five years ago by Preston (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) Sturges under the title The Sin of Harold Diddle-bock, it contains a fuzzy exposition of Writer-Director Sturges' economic philosophy ("This is a picture against security. It shows that trouble sharpens the wit and security dulls it"). As currently released by RKO's Howard Hughes, who ended a brief partnership with Sturges in 1946, Mad Wednesday has suffered some...
...concept that the flesh is evil and that sex is related to the flesh and is therefore evil is not a part of historical Christianity," he stressed, adding, "Christianity is the most materialistic of the religions. Another misconception concerning Christianity is that 'man shall be conceived in sin'. This is not a Christian conviction; actually the story of Adam and Eve from which it stems was a clumsy attempt of the early Hebrews to explain how sin came into the world...
...Usuard, a Benedictine monk, wrote his Martyrology in the 9th Century, at the instigation of Charles the Bald. * Last such definition, in 1854: the dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception (that she was conceived free of original sin). † An official papal document named for the lead seal, or bulla, which papal and royal documents carried in the early Middle Ages...
Somewhere in the next years-when Coolidge and Hoover gave him high position-the mantle of elder statesman began to settle imperceptibly around Henry Stimson's lean shoulders. He shared and symbolized the nation's ideals and hopes ("the only deadly sin I know is cynicism," he once wrote). Always above petty intrigues, he was by then broader than politics, and wiser than the current clich...
...think that clinical training is any new gospel or that it has brought anything new to the theological field . . . It is only a new approach to the central problems and task of the church: the problem of sin and salvation...