Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sin, Science & Peanuts
...United Press committed the common journalistic sin of hopping up a story -and raised an uncommon fuss. Reported the U.P. under a Lorain, Ohio dateline: "The first bread line since the Depression days of the 1930s formed today at City Hall in this recession-hit steel town where one of every nine residents is receiving unemployment checks." The "news" sped across the U.S. Cried the Lorain evening Journal (circ. 26,517): "A vicious false report ... a case study in mass hysteria." Rewriting the U.P. rewriteman, a Journal editorial pointed out that Lorain (pop. 59,219) has a total of only...
Born during the shelling of Paris by the Prussians in 1871, Rouault was early apprenticed to a stained-glass maker, began painting on a religious theme while studying at the Beaux-Arts. He painted sin in the form of prostitutes, evil in the faces of dishonest judges, misery in the eyes of clowns-and finally he depicted faith and goodness in Christ. He expressed himself in paint so thick that at times it seems to glow like stained glass, at other times burns against the black outlines like live coals. Driven by an unremitting artistic conscience, he agonized over some...
Quick support for Brigitte's right to be shown came from Mayor Richardson Dilworth,* longtime political foe of Fellow Democrat Blanc. Cracked Dilworth: "Mr. Blanc thinks he's going to get all the votes of the women's clubs by denouncing sin." In turn, Blanc darkly noted that Dilworth's former law partners were representing the film distributor, declared: "In my opinion, the mayor is using his elective office to help his old law firm...
...Among them: a booze-prone church organist who bikes his empties out into the country rather than stash the incriminatory bottles in his ash barrel; a lady reincarnationist who believes she once dined with a Pharaoh; the town's Mary Magdalene with whom Floyd finds it sweet to sin. These and other forlorn rebels form a kind of Freudian chorus attesting the ego-twisting power of convention...