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Word: sodomizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homosexuality stems from five biblical condemnations of homosexual acts.* But by attempting to distinguish between what is divinely inspired and what is an expression of the cultural assumptions of the biblical era, a few theologians are challenging old interpretations of these texts. For example, the mysterious sins of Sodom and Gomorrah, which have been assumed to be sodomy, are now thought by some scholars to be pride and inhospitality to strangers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOMOSEXUALITY: Gays on the March | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

...reveal the secrets of the Tree of Knowledge that Yaldabaoth had jealously kept from Adam and Eve. Yaldabaoth, working in league with Noah, tried to exterminate the knowledge-seeking Gnostics with a worldwide flood. Later on, he attacked them with brimstone when they sought refuge in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The World Haters | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

Casablanca [1942]. What can you say that's new about Bogey, Ingrid Bergman, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, and Claude Rains, except maybe that Rains is actually a deus ex machina at the end and that you should read the short story, "Sodom and Gomorrah," by Richard Berczeller in the October 14 issue of the New Yorker about Michael Curtiz, the film's director...

Author: By Lester F. Greenspoon, | Title: TELEVISION | 11/7/1974 | See Source »

Dash said he thought that "in the end the basic health of the system will allow it to recover. However, in order to escape this present-day Sodom and Gomorrah we must adopt new concepts of morality based upon integrity and justice...

Author: By Mary R. Rodeheffer, | Title: Dash Defends Senate's Inquiry Power | 2/9/1974 | See Source »

...dutiful pessimist, O'Neill damned New York as a Sodom and Gomorrah of the arts. But his labors for the New York stage brought him four Pulitzers and a Nobel Prize (in 1936-for Mourning Becomes Electro, O'Neill thought). Strange Interlude netted O'Neill, who was not immune to the charms of money, about $275,000. He inhabited at least three artist's dream palaces, including a 35-room chateau at Le Plessis near Tours. In his closet O'Neill had 75 pairs of shoes; in his drive, a Bugatti roadster. What more could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Family Disasters | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

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