Word: unshriven
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...eight months, has moved from his suite to a single room in the Waldorf-Astoria, and cannot afford to keep their son in boarding school. He maintains face before the washroom attendant at the Greenbank Club, but his lunchroom tabs there are piling up like unshriven sins. The trouble is that restless Lincoln is a job jumper-he has headed four corporations in the past decade. Is he a phony? Lincoln Lord himself is not sufficiently introspective to consider the problem, and this is his great strength. When things are looking black as a broker's Mercedes, he wangles...
...Mortal sin condemns the unshriven sinner to hell, venial sin "merits only temporal punishment" and, unless expiated on earth, is paid for only by the pains of purgatory...
...clergyman of some intelligence and much ambition who needs little convincing that he can run things better than the bishop. The bishop, the seduction speech runs, is so conservative that he will end by bringing the Communists clamping down on the church, and then how about the souls unshriven, the infants unbaptized? Thus, "bishops, priests and faithful are placed continually before a crisis of conscience. The bishops in particular find themselves faced with the gravest decision: if they refuse to acknowledge the appointment of the candidate [the frustrated canon] he will be nominated without the bishops' consent. This will...
...agencies which cement the Church's life: Sunday schools, relief societies, mutual improvement associations for young people, a primary association for moppets, a genealogical society. Important to the Church is the last, through which good Mormons may seek data on their ancestors. By Mormon tenet, one's unshriven forebears may be admitted to Mormonism retroactively and posthumously, baptized by proxy...
...harm in Within the Gates. When the play opened in Manhattan last October, half the critical choir went into ecstasies over its allegory of a bishop's illegitimate daughter (played by Lillian Gish) who becomes a prostitute and dies in a raffish poet's arms unshriven by the Church. Since the bishop's creed was left scrupulously unspecified by Playwright O'Casey, no faction of the New York clergy felt impelled to lead an assault on the drama's heresies. But as soon as he heard that Within the Gates had taken to the road...