Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Czechoslovak Theologian Josef Hromádka, saying: "My hair stands on end" at the concept of "freedom and peace" through "Nikita, Mao and even Fidel." Hromádka's association of the Christian Gospel with the political cause of Communism, he said, was a mirror image of the sin committed by Niebuhr and other anti-Communist "Western fathers...
...tickets to bad movies. But you cannot, under any circumstances, gain carnal knowledge of young girls. Dave Axelrod (Martin Hewitt) finds this out the hard way--for a few months everything is cool (steamy hot, really), as he and young Ms. Shields make love at every opportunity. But sin never goes unpunished; halfway through the film, our stud almost dies in a house fire, and as the final credits roll he is confined, for the second time, to an insane asylum...
...only jarring note in Marcos' week of triumph, which was also attended by high officials from China and the Soviet Union, was his continuing feud with the Roman Catholic Church, whose leaders he had angered during the election campaign. Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila, issued a statement assailing "frontal attacks" on the church and accusing the state of "making a mockery of the constitutional provision regarding freedom of religion." But Sin, in many ways a traditionalist, does not seek a confrontation with Marcos. "We are really helping him," Sin insists, "but he sometimes seems not to realize this...
...series that Wildmon has cited as "top sex-oriented."* Last week representatives of at least four companies-including Warner-Lambert, SmithKline, Gillette and Phillips Petroleum-conferred privately with CBTV, some in apparent hope that Wildmon would excuse them from the boycott hit list if they would go and sin no more. Wildmon in turn announced: "I think consultation and conversation and compromise are far superior to confrontation. We've always said that a boycott is a last resort." Exulted Cal Thomas, vice president of communications for the Moral Majority: "It's like the prime rate. When...
...tendency to boast is, after all, merely part of the larger discipline of keeping the ego in check. And why should anyone wish to do that? Simply because the main thing that traps people into spiritual emptiness is some sort of berserk ego. Says Psychologist Shirley Sugerman in Sin and Madness: Studies in Narcissism: "The ancient wisdom of both East and West [tells] repeatedly of man's tendency to self-idolatry, self-encapsulation, and its result: self-destruction...