Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That did it. Rivera was condemned by practically everyone in town-except the Communists, who prepared to forgive him his Trotskyite sins and welcome him back with open arms. Roman Catholic committees demanded that the Del Prado mural be changed, or got rid of, as Rivera's Reforma Hotel...
In 1921 a Lutheran minister from Pennsburg, Pa. was pondering the world's sins as he strolled the quiet walks of Oxford. "How can one man change the world?" he asked himself. Suddenly, as he said afterwards, the answer came direct from God: "First one man changed, then two...
On eastern U.S. campuses and in better-class communities, "Soul Surgeon" Frank Buchman's Groupers organized house parties for tennis, tea, and friendly arm-on-shoulder proselytizing. Groupers were encouraged to "get square with God" by "sharing" their sins in public confessions to their fellow members-a practice which...
He came to New York because he had no relatives there. "I wanted to commit sins if I felt like it," he says. He was 20, a hefty, blue-eyed, black-haired youth with $25 in his pocket. He looked up with satisfaction at the "buildings falling all over themselves...
"The Church," he said, "was reduced to an institution whose function it was to comfort the aged and to wipe the eyes of those who couldn't take it in the struggle of life. Now all our compromises, our sins, our apostasy are coming back to roost in one...