Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...S.M.U.'s President Umphrey Lee, an ordained Methodist clergyman, it was frankly disturbing. "I do not know how to put the matter any stronger," said he, at the Dallas Salesmanship Club, "than in the words of the supreme legislative body of my church: 'AntiSemitism is a deadly sin.'" Nevertheless, since Beaty kept insisting that he was not really antiSemitic, he remained at his post, partly because of the two-way laws of academic freedom. Last February he trained his sights on a new target: S.M.U. itself...
...orthodox" as Barth himself, increasingly disagree. By what he says, Neutralist Barth marks himself as actually an indiscriminate "participationist." The essence of his church-state philosophy: the church must participate in the affairs of any state, Communist or not. "The State," says Barth, "is not a product of sin, but one of the constants of divine Providence...
...theirs not long after Rhoda's father was transferred to the South? Before The Bad Seed is fully under way, Mrs. Penmark knows the answers to these questions, and the shock is more than she can bear. For Rhoda is a born bundle of sweet-miened sin, a youngster of good family and favorable environment who is quite ready to kill others for whatever she may covet...
...President: here is the golden tablet . . . the tablet of Dr. Douglas, the author of 14 books. Therefore, Mr. President, Mr. Douglas says to the members of the Senate: 'My friends, you must take this. Otherwise you are guilty of sacrilege and you are guilty of sin...
...Baldwin came to argue against the motion: "That this House has the highest regard for rhetoric." (He lost, with Rab casting the deciding vote against him.) Rab escorted Baldwin to the station next morning, where the old man bought him a thriller "and told me that intellectualism was a sin, and would lead a young man to a fate worse than death." To this day the effort of concealing the fact that he is brighter than most men he meets gives Rab a remote...