Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Brotherhood of Penitentes is a fossil of medieval Christianity, preserved by the isolation of village culture in the Old World and the New. Public flagellation as penance for sins was common in Europe until the Renaissance; in Spain the custom persisted and was carried into the New World when...
But the Penitentes still suffer for their sins. Near each morada is a hill called Calvary, usually surmounted by a cross which stands there all year long. In Easter Week, on Wednesday, Thursday and Good Friday, the Penitentes stage processions between morada and Calvary-some stripped to the waist, with...
Died. Wolcott Gibbs, 56, writer and drama critic for The New Yorker magazine, author of the 1950 Broadway hit comedy Season in the Sun, which chronicled the sins and insecurities of the Manhattan literary set's Fire Island summer resort; of a heart attack at his summer home on...
* Key: "Jerusalem shall be trodden down . . . until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled" (Luke 21:24). Russell decided the "times" began when Nebuchadnezzar overthrew Jerusalem (in 586 B.C. according to historians, in October 607 B.C. according to Russell). Since Israel was to suffer "seven times" for its sins (Leviticus...
Greeted in Britain by the brassiest of literary fanfares, this volume by a minor English poet performs the complicated parlor trick of 1) confessing to a slew of sleazy sins, 2) confessing to be confessing "to worm my way into the graces ... of society," 3) confessing that all the confessing...