Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hotelkeepers all over the Caribbean last week raised their rates to winter levels, officially opening what promised to be the rum-punch belt's splashiest sin-and-sun season yet. Wide-open Havana, nonchalantly bent on pleasure despite a running revolution against Dictator Fulgencio Batista, offered visitors the biggest hotel built there since 1930. Jamaica also welcomed tourists to a new hotel, the island's biggest...
...Music Man Willson still acts like a wide-eyed Iowa innocent. He is bowled over by the thumping success of his first musical ("I'm on Cloud 9012"), lavishes credit on the whole company for its "wholesome" approach to the job. "You hear all this business about Broadway sin and sex and smoke-filled rooms," Willson says, "but this company is different. It really is. Our kids weep with joy over the show, that's how much they feel about it. Do you know there hasn't been a gripe, not a bit of hysteria...
...answer catechism, written by the grandfather of Boston's famed hell-fire-and-brimstone Preacher Cotton Mather, Spiritual Milk was designed to edify and scare the daylights out of colonial moppets, e.g.: "Q. What is your corrupt nature? Answ. My corrupt nature is empty of Grace, bent unto sin, and onely unto sin, and that continually." It ended with the threat and promise that "the Righteous shall go into life eternall, and the wicked shall be cast into everlasting fire with the Devil and his Angels...
...conservative and Confucian in outlook, the court looked for its models to the Chinese masters. One of the best, Yi In-mun (1745-1821), combined fantasy and perspective with superb brushwork and a cautious use of color that in many ways surpass his Chinese models. No such inhibitions bothered Sin Yun-pok (see overleaf), whose sumptuous scenes were often shocking to his contemporaries. One such scene of a kisaeng (geisha) party, with dancing girls performing on mats out of doors to the music of the hatted orchestra, is something no Korean gentlewoman could have witnessed. But to Westerners, it gives...
...Nobel Prizewinner edging away from existentialism toward religion in an effort to pinpoint the dilemma of modern man. His boozy, sometimes boring hero tries hard to believe that man is the center of all things, yet is more than half persuaded that he is wrapped in original sin...