Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blues, Ballads and Sin-Songs brought Libby Holman back to Broadway in a one-woman show. A quarter of a century after Body and Soul and Moanin' Low, Libby still looks youthful, her voice is still throaty and smoldering. Last week's music noticeably differed, however, from the songs the siren sang in The Little Show and Three's a Crowd; her present program-some of it suggesting what might be termed musical American primitives-sets her where the nightclub singer merges (or clashes) with the recitalist...
...that "a 20th century historian might venture to predict that Christianity's transfiguring effect on the World up to date would be outshone by its continuing operation in the future." But he does not accept Christianity as the only true religion. To do so, he believes, is a "sin." If to be a Christian is to believe that Christianity "possesses a monopoly of the Divine Light . . . then I am not entitled to call myself a Christian." Since finishing the Study, Toynbee has expressed himself even more strongly. Said he: "If all the religions in the world were to disappear...
...false and temporary refuge. Instead, Toynbee suggests a kind of spontaneous rally of faith, possibly even the emergence of a new spiritual species. In the distant future, he foresees a kind of blending of all the higher religions-"a terrestrial Communion of Saints who would be free from sin . . . because each soul . . . would be cooperating with God at the cost of sore spiritual travail...
...Sin. This strange pilgrimage of the spirit is recounted with rich journalistic detail-and a style occasionally reminiscent of Turkish delight-in Asad's autobiography. The Road to Mecca (Simon & Schuster; $5). There are vivid pictures of such figures as the late King Ibn Saud (whom he served as unofficial adviser) and of the beauties and terrors of the great Nufud Desert (where Asad was caught in a sandstorm without supplies and lost for three days). Threaded through the travelogues is a warm and enlightening picture of the world's second largest religion and its believers, who seem...
...people." But one thing put him off: "The distinction it made between the soul and the body, the world of faith and the world of practical affairs." Not so Islam. "Nowhere in the Koran could I find any reference to a need for 'salvation.' No original, inherited sin stood between the individual and his destiny ... No asceticism was required to open a hidden gate to purity: for purity was man's birthright, and sin meant no more than a lapse from the innate, positive qualities. . . . Was not perhaps this teaching . . . responsible for the emotional security...