Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Balzacian novel from which John and Maureen Dean sprang is now reaching a richly ironic climax. Freed from prison after serving only four months of his one-to four-year Watergate sentence, John hurried home to Mo in Los Angeles to tot up the wages of sin. There was the $350,000 advance from Simon & Schuster for hard-cover rights to John's account of life with Nixon, and the same publisher's undisclosed advance to Mo for her version of life with John. Then there is John's lecture tour, which starts...
...pronouncements," to "do a drop by" occasional faculty functions so as to "show the flag"--can obscure the style that makes them so enjoyable. It obscures the allusions to literature ("They, for the most part, are also non-College. Worse yet, they are also non-Harvard. What greater sin could one commit in Lilliputia?"), religion ("Pusey was viewed as a stern Puritan who could raise money and handle things"), and political analysis ("I am sure the faculty would call it 'anti-intellectualism.' We can see it in such areas of society as disenchanted students, angry congressmen, disappointed parents, Gallup polls...
...liturgy, such as the English Mass. The "new church," in fact, is widely approved. Most who stay away from church say that they do so because they are working, too old or tired, or simply lazy. Furthermore, only 53% now think that missing Mass is "certainly" a sin for those who can easily attend. On the other hand, in the new survey, 6% of those questioned had attended a Catholic Pentecostal prayer meeting, a figure that if extrapolated to the U.S. Catholic population, would put the number of charismatic experimenters at well over 2 million. In another upward trend, recipients...
Surprisingly, there were only five penalties assessed the entire game, and Brown picked up only two of them. The first period passed remarkably quickly and the door to the sin bin never opened...
...They, for the most part, are also non-College. Worse yet, they are also non-Harvard. What greater sin could one commit in Lilliputia...