Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...philosophic dialogue and human drama was tipped over by an exclusive concentration on the latter. Lines were used as a histrionic medium in which the actors could palpitate rather than ever being allowed simply to mean, to communicate, to convey their propositional sense: it is the theatre's immemorial sin against the writer. As a result, not only was the audience deprived of the exciting display of Betti's dialectical fireworks, but the emotional climaxes which are in the script largely failed to come off because the air was already so thickly clogged with gratuitous passion...
...seeks in holy love to save all people from aimlessness and sin...
...Jesus Christ, the man of Nazareth, our crucified and risen Lord, he has come to us and shared our common lot, conquering sin and death and reconciling the world to himself...
...need for Billy to travel so far to learn about the "facts of life." If he were to spend one or two moonlit evenings spying on those who park along the lovers' lanes in his own Bible-belt state, he could collect enough material for several sermons on "sin...
...prose. The man is popping with word-foolery. He interrupts his narrative-and a more interruptible narrative would be hard to find-to inform the reader that a tirade is "a sneak attack on a haberdashery," and a syndrome is "a large amphitheater where the ancient Romans used to sin." He dreams moodily of going to Canada and establishing a police force equal in every respect to the Mounties. "I would call them the Royal Canadian Tanta-mounties," writes Wallach, adding with crocodile contrition: "Thoughts like this are basically sterile...