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Tragedy & Torment. Convinced that the tragedy had not been her fault, the police did not even book Mrs. Gutheridge. Later that night, however, the phone rang in her small apartment. When she picked up the receiver, a young man's voice asked harshly: "How does it feel to be a murderess, Mrs. Gutheridge...
...because it makes men moral, but because it civilizes them. He enjoyed mocking American. English and German Protestants for their rigid dismissal of superstition and their concern with questions of conduct. The doctrine of eternal damnation (he wrote) did not mean that man must behave himself lest he suffer torment in the afterlife, but was a poetically enlightening image which refined men's sensibility and hardened their stoicism before the intolerable truth that all human acts, all evils and all pain, are irremediable. What is done is done, and man must take the consequences with open eyes. Between Spanish...
...will pay with torment...
...last Dec. 7, Homer Earl Bragg, 40, seemed to be just another Manhattan bus driver, somberly watchful, a little tense, ready to meet the wayfarer's question with a surly reply or surly silence. Then suddenly he began popping up & down in his seat. "You people have been tormenting me!" he shouted to his passengers. "Now I'm going to torment you!" He stepped down on the gas pedal, ran past a red light at Broadway and 43rd Street, piled into a taxicab and a crush of other cars. In all, nine were injured (seven hospitalized), and nine...
...putting things right, the Christian partially agrees with the psychologist. He, too, puts the criminal above the crime, is not primarily concerned with" settling "a bill in accordance with some tariff." But unlike the psychologist, he does not regard guilt as "an illusion, a form of groundless self-torment." He regards it rather as indispensable, for "in the life of the soul no magic wand is waved, no slate is simply sponged." The Christian's final responsibility is not to abolish the delinquent's guilt-the one means of redemption- but to share it. "He will regard...