Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...catechism of Jesse Jackson's campaign, the Old Testament verse that went with him everywhere: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land...
...very first game, I actually didn't realize I could shoot pictures from the box until after the first period had passed. A fellow editor spotted me on the uncomfortable camera box and directed me to the sin bins. There, I men Kristina Kalan '95, the Indy photographer. She had some advice...
...closer to the experience of slavery because I have long known that this is part of my national and personal history, whereas the Holocaust was very foreign to this Southerner who knew no Jews until age 12. But I will not bear this burden; I was born with original sin in general, not the sin of slavery in particular. Some descendants of slaves may insist upon internalizing the pain of slavery--that is their choice. My choice--and I do have a choice--is otherwise. There is no "reciprocity imperative," at least concerning slavery per se. All the participants--perpetrators...
...love. He was indeed a genius at getting theater people to do what he wanted. Callow admiringly calls Welles "a creative opportunist without peer," fashioning art from the sweat of many and daring to call it all his. A lifelong credit hog, Welles could indeed do it all. His sin was that he wanted people to think he did it all alone...
Sanctimony, of course, is also a journalistic sin, and Fallows could be faulted for that if his own credentials were not so pristine. As an author and magazine writer, his primary patrons have been the two living saints of thoughtful journalism, Charles Peters of the Washington Monthly and William Whitworth of the Atlantic Monthly, and he has done them proud. Although many of his criticisms are not new--they have probably been voiced by every President since George Washington and have been examined in greater depth by such books as Thomas Patterson's sharp 1993 treatise Out of Order--Fallows...