Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magic once more. This time it doesn't really work, but the play itself is principally to blame. It was never much good-barroom O'Neill at best, liberally sprinkled with intellectual sawdust ("I don't want to think; I want to drink"). The wages of sin are paid in dreary installments, but the writer is careful to make the sentimental deductions that most producers consider necessary for social security. The heroine follows the primrose path all the way, and finds that it leads to the altar...
...Nymphet, will be eagerly awaited. For Miss Glench is charming. Miss Glench is beautiful. Miss Glench is neatsie-poo. She sings like a nightingale, and she looks like one too, with the neatest little set of tailfeathers you could ever hope to see. Miss Glench, will you live in sin with...
Dean Watson called the duel "most deplorable," and said that the "corral," which had been intended as a mating pen for the Chinese dragons, had "tasted sin." Watson indicated, however, that Hall's grade would be raised. "The University can do nothing to impair the obligation of contract," he said...
...advertisers in the anniversary issue had to pay for their ads. Dozens of bylined articles were donated to the cause by literate or semiliterate types from all the stages of show business. Determined readers could dip into an essay on sin in the cinema by a translator of foreign subtitles named Herman Weinberg ("Surely, it is not sophistication to revel in bosoms and behinds"). They could sample Playwright William Saroyan at his most incomprehensible ("Squawking is futile unless it's something else at the same time, such as art, which is also futile unless it is something else...
...ugly show of violence toward Conner. Symbolically, it is the mock crucifixion of a false Christ. Hungering for the bread of understanding, the old people had been fed the cold tin plates of social progress. Updike unfolds his parable with stylistic elegance. But, too polite to talk about the sin of pride, he gradually throws away his book's sense of purpose...