Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ "We in the art museums of America have reached a point where we must make a choice of becoming either temples of learning and understanding ... or of remaining merely hanging gardens for the perpetuation of the Babylonian pleasures of estheticism and the secret sins of private archeology."
Although converted to Christianity in 1929, Presbyterian Muto, 48, did not begin to practice his religion seriously until after World War II. Shaken by Japan's defeat and his part in the Avar, he became a minister, as he said, "to atone for my sins." He made a name...
Stockwell passed the Reds' course for counterrevolutionaries: he "confessed" to his sins. He was released on Nov. 17 at the Hong Kong border. Some of his captors thought they had made a convert. Missionary Stockwell, weakened by his captivity but still unconverted, plans to continue his work elsewhere in...
In Mexico City, Artist Diego Rivera, who was expelled from the Communist Party in 1929. later compounded his sins by providing a home in exile for Leon Trotsky, made his third formal appeal to be taken back into the fold. He had been, said Rivera, "a coward, traitor, counterrevolutionary, abject...
In reply to Sorokin's assertion that "the remnants of moral values had been shot to pieces in the 20th century," Thomas denied any "great moral decline." The only difference today, he said, is that "through now tools our sins and mistakes can do more harm than they ever could...