Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campus by the sea," its surfing, suntanned students often seem more concerned with meteorological than political phenomena. Many occupy their own apartments in a two-square-mile enclave at Isla Vista. Their relaxed morals offend the Santa Barbara citizenry and law officers, who refer to Isla Vista as Sin City. For their part, students openly provoke the locals and call the cops dumb squares...
...worked upon the people. "A man," he wrote, "can be simply or savagely-above all, pointlessly-wiped out, regardless of what he is, means, hopes, dreams or might become. This reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot." "Perhaps the great sin," he felt, "is to say: 'It will heal; it has healed...
...have tamed and broken the bold spirit of these magnificent people, while molding them into submissiyeness, bears resemblance to the sin of taming all wild stallions to pull a plow and letting the eagle become extinct...
...enjoying a boom as a spectator sport, with scores of strip joints and nude theaters ? but not, as yet, top less waitresses. The Ginza is still To kyo's main entertainment street, but the rising sin district is Akasaka, where ground-floor bar patrons in the Biblos bend not only their elbows but also their necks ? to leer at couples dancing on a transparent plastic floor above. Of the 493 movies that Japan produced last year, ductions." The 250 were hottest flick right adults-only now "ero-is ? what else? ? Sexpo...
Slowly the bonds of Untouchability have begun to weaken as the Hindu doctrine of karma has come into question. Karma teaches outcastes that their present misery is the result of sin committed in a previous incarnation. For centuries, that doctrine has ensured that the Untouchables would accept their lot. Now growing numbers of them are demanding a better break in this life, not the next...