Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's most outspoken Methodist leader, Donald Soper, never a man to put aside the burning word, last week hotted up his country's current hassle over artificial insemination (TIME, Jan. 27). The Archbishop of Canterbury had condemned the use of extramarital donors as a sin; not necessarily so, said Nonconformist Soper. "It's no good the church wanting to make it a sin or a crime; it is another piece of mechanism science has put in our hands to use wisely. I do not consider it sinful to give certain spinsters . . . artificial insemination so that they...
Since a foreign picture cannot be booked in most U.S. cities without Manhattan reviews, Father Panchali will almost certainly not be booked elsewhere in the U.S. Meantime, Manhattan's art houses looked more than ever like tart houses, as their marquees showed: The Adulteress ("absorbing drama of sin"), And God Created Woman (starring Brigitte Bardot), Sins of Casanova ("wicked"), The Bride Was Much Too Beautiful (Brigitte Bardot), Smiles of a Summer Night ("bawdy, nawdy"), The Light Across the Street (Brigitte Bardot...
...Sin in Five Lines
...Oliver St. John Gogarty, the "stately plump Buck Mulligan" of Ulysses. Recalls Stanislaus of his brother: "I hated to see him glossy-eyed and slobbery-mouthed." Gogarty confessed to another friend that he wanted "to make Joyce drink in order to break his spirit," and celebrated the occasions of sin with a limerick...
...sweet nature-with the result that, though only 23, she had one illegitimate son in the fashionable London district of St. John's Wood and at least ?1,000,000 in the kitty. His eyes sparkling, Prince Louis forgave Miss Howard. He himself, he confessed, was not without sin. While incarcerated at Ham, he had fathered two sons of the jailer's daughter-"the fruits of captivity," he murmured. Then he threw himself at Miss Howard's feet and knocked her off her bank balance...