Word: sins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committed the original sin of gardening, thinking I could impose my own will on my garden, thinking I could compel roses to grow in the shadows of oak trees. Believe me, you might more usefully invest your time in making water run uphill. Since I loved my oak trees and my roses equally -- and since only a large saw could give the roses their place in the sun -- I decided to let nature take its course, which is a political act. Charles de Gaulle once said that the secret of political success is to foresee what is going to happen...
...move Sandy Socolow, the respected former executive producer of the CBS Evening News, from the London bureau to Tel Aviv. The attempt, which Socolow balked at, "left a bitter taste" with staffers, who saw it as "an effort to squeeze out of CBS News a respected veteran whose principal sin was a close friendship with Walter Cronkite." Joyce, typically, describes the incident in a short paragraph and gives no inkling of its repercussions...
Anyone who loves books knows how hard it is to throw even one of them away, even one that is silly or stupid or vicious and full of lies. How much more criminal, how much more a sin against consciousness, to burn a book. A question then: What if one were to gather from the corners of the earth all the existing copies of Mein Kampf and make a bonfire of them? Would that be an act of virtue? Or of evil...
...then will come one of the most critical moments in the 1988 campaign. Jackson could insist that being the first black on a national ticket is a historic milestone, one that he and his supporters have earned; it would be a bold stroke against the nation's greatest sin, one that could actually sweep the Democrats to victory by arousing the passions of social justice. Or he could say no, that he has never had the least desire to be Vice President and he is smart enough to realize that such a ticket would probably lose and thus cripple both...
...statement from U. S. Catholic bishops brands sexism a "sin" and voices women' s frustrations. -- Return of Charles Curran...