Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think it is apparent that the Silent Majority is no longer silent. The hymn Onward, Christian Soldiers has just been taken out of mothballs. Charity toward people, yes; but tolerance toward sin...
...have already started gathering the stones. Now don't you worry your pretty little head about what the Bible says-"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"-because we down here in Texas are without sin...
According to the Scriptures, Christ said to the woman taken in adultery. "Go, and sin no more." Would he, speaking in today's clichés, say something like this: "As to your extramarital affair: Was it self-liberating, other-enriching, life-serving, creative, integrative and joyous? If so, then it was morally acceptable. Go now, and have a good...
Censorship still exists?though it is not as stiff as before?but enforcement can be confused and capricious. The authorities have not tried to close Madrid, Mortal Sin, a lively revue?complete with a nude scene ?that pokes fun at everything, including politicians of all stripes. The most popular film in Madrid last winter was The Proposal, a sexually explicit tale of an amoral senorita who accidentally kills her lover out of erotic ardor. But Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris has yet to be shown, and a poet was recently fined $2,700 for reading in public...
...woman's will pervades SIN--the first show by a Radcliffe undergraduate to be mounted at the Loeb--it is in the person, rather than the role, of Ravenal. She lends Eve assertive and wistful self-consciousness simultaneously. Hers is the only voice that distinguishes the musical score, with ample range and appealing tremolo. Still, she has her script to contend with and, as Adam remarks, husband-wife shtick inevitably prevails...