Word: sinse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overnight, Herbert Hoover was turned into a scapegoat for the economic sins of a whole generation. Charles Michelson, the Democrats' razor-tongued publicity genius, pilloried him before millions as a hapless homunculus responsible for all the nation's ills. Disgruntled citizens called the dear departed boom the Hoover...
Lemelin was keeping pretty close to that pace when his third child was expected in June 1950 and he was well along with a group of short stories entitled Fantasies on the Seven Deadly Sins. But nature intervened. This time his wife bore him a set of twins. So Lemelin...
Perfect Love? A German art historian named Wilhelm Fränger is the latest to have a try at unraveling the tangle of Bosch's imagery. In a book recently published, The Millennium of Hieronymus Bosch (University of Chicago Press; $10), he sets forth an original conclusion: Bosch was...
Wine & Strong Waters. In early practice, "consent of the governed" meant the domination of a conforming majority. "The brotherly watch of fellow members" soon degenerated into a terrifying apparatus of secret accusations and public confessions, where people's neighbors passed judgment on their real or fancied sins.
Infallible Profession? To a man who asked whether there is a change of life for men in which their drives and interests change, Dr. Chase cited St. Augustine: "We do not forsake our sins. Our sins forsake us." After a brisk medical discussion he concluded: "Sure, we men have a...