Word: sloth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fighting another battle these days, a struggle to pay its way in the competitive world economy. The country is getting scant help from the British workingman, who too often thinks that the only fight he has to wage is the battle against his boss. Padded payrolls and plain sloth are slowing production at home, losing business abroad and aggravating the chronic trade deficit and the sterling crisis. Examples...
...which leaves daytime TV with only two sins untouched: wrath and sloth...
...shadows begin to lengthen on her lawn and the commercials for virile laundry detergents (Boost!, Blast!, Fist!, Kick!, Sneer!, Guts!) ricochet around the homemaker's uncleaned living room, sloth can easily be accounted for. As for wrath, that depends. Will she one day wax wroth when she suddenly realizes how many sunlit hours have been spent before the tube? Will she rise and turn off the set? Or is she trapped forever in the flickering world of vicarious fun and games, scandal and sex? Tune out tomorrow...
...level miss the meaning of the Incarnation: that God in Christ did come down to man's level in everything except sin. The Gospels make it clear that Jesus was subject to all sorts of earthly temptations. "Hunger Jesus knew, and thirst. Death He endured. Pride, sloth, envy, desire for power, idolatry-all came close to Him and were overcome in favor of the virtues of which they are the perversions." Unless sex itself is interpreted as a sign of man's fallen nature, a view rejected by most modern theologians, there is no good reason why Jesus...
Iron Cage. They speak, unhappily, too seldom. Poet Larkin writes his lines at a rate that might embarrass an arthritic tree sloth-four short poems a year, and he usually throws one of them away. In his entire career he has published (aside from two youthful novels) only three books of verse, containing fewer than 100 poems. The Less Deceived, published in 1955, was the blazing eruption of a young volcano, the work of a brilliant man discovering in disorder what he could do. The Whitsun Weddings is a prepared descent into the simmering crater of middle age, the work...