Word: sins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tragedy] underlines the truth that human hopes must measure themselves against unfeeling necessity . . . Tragic wisdom is the knowledge of evil . . . By purging man of the original sin of self-sufficiency, tragedy makes him sociable and compassionate . . so that he can love without craving, strive without fretfulness, rise to success without falling into pride, fail without losing heart...
...theological haggling over the virtue or sin of Dr. Perl, no one seems to have noted that the unborn babies were doomed in any event...
Last summer the weakened Voice was nearly stilled altogether when outraged Congressmen discovered that an NBC scriptwriter had been wisecracking about their home states (e.g., "New England was founded by hypocrisy, and Texas . . . by sin"). When the smoke cleared away, NBC and CBS had canceled their Government contracts. The Voice got a new appropriation of nearly $12 million and was made one of the chores of able Career Diplomat George Allen, new Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs...
Oldtime Party Leader Lucretiu Patra-scanu was ousted from the Ministry of Justice and jailed, along with his wife, a few months ago. There is no question of baksheesh in his case. His sin is in wanting a Communist Rumania for the Rumanian, rather than the Russian, Communists...
...theologians would agree that Dr. Perl's end justified her means. Protestants and Jews have varying views on different kinds of abortion; Roman Catholics say flatly that any abortion is mortal sin. One physician, New York's Dr. David Deutschman, observed: "There is no rational or moral justification for . . . wholesale slaughter of infants . . . whether it be done by the brutal Nazis, or by a sentimental and well-meaning female medical personality...