Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that is positive? Of course, he hardly owes us anything positive. But I think that, like Johnson, he places great value on getting the mind off the mind through work. Johnson used to quote Burton, "Be not idle, be not solitary," and write to himself, "Despair is a sin." But once religious comfort, however rational, gives place to "the work ethic," the solution takes on the appearance of romantic oversimplification. Work, like everything else-socialism, democracy, love-was to Chekhov only a preconceived notion which could not renew life by itself, and which, if clung to stupidly as a panacea...
...Psychiatrist Alvin F. Poussaint says: "The color black has been synonymous with 'sin' and 'bad.' " Not necessarily...
...only one who has expressed serious doubts about confirmation has been, surprisingly, the judge himself. He told TIME Correspondent Frank Merrick that he has "the utmost respect, almost a reverence," for the Supreme Court and that any man who sits on it, "ought to be without sin." What troubles Blackmun is that in searching back through the 900 cases he has handled as a federal judge since his appointment in 1959, he found three in which he had rendered decisions, although he held a small stock interest in companies involved in the litigation. Blackmun brought those cases to the attention...
...than serfs. Huge preserves were set aside for game, and poachers were punished with mutilation or death. In fact, "venery" (the kind practiced in the field rather than the bed) even had the approval of the church, which exhorted dukes and princelings to engage in hunting to avoid the sin of indolence. In addition, the clergy often blessed the hounds before the hunt...
...today are no less ambivalent. No matter how firmly they protest that they "have nothing against the black." contempt and loathing have become embedded in the language. Black Psychiatrist Alvin F. Poussaint points out: "In the legacy of our civilization, the color black has been virtually synonymous with 'sin' and 'bad'-witness such terms as black sheep, black magic, blacklist, blackguard, blackball, black lie and many others. The word is associated with all the dirty, lowly, unintellectual functions in human life. The word white is usually invested with the opposite meanings, so Americans have been conditioned...