Word: sin
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...turn in my preaching parchment if Huxley and his biological associates can make one further advancement. Let them eradicate this thing we theological boys call sin. If so, I'll return to the scientific campus or take up a janitorial job in a biological...
...Cuban Revolution, an amalgam of Communists and street brawlers, has grown so powerful that it is causing serious division within the political coalition backing President Romulo Betancourt. A few weeks ago, at the funeral of a local Castro leader killed by police, angry members carried his co Sin, decked with the 26th of July red and black colors, through the streets for four hours. Recently, when anti-Castro Cubans held a memorial service in Caracas Cathedral, committee members and the Cuban charge d'affaires attacked the church...
...raucous moments as if Mickey Mantle had popped up with the bases loaded. While the performer stood transfixed, boos, catcalls and whistles filled the warm night air. Occasion: an open-air performance of Aïda at Verona, during which Soprano Antonietta Stella committed the unpardonable sin of muffing a high C in the difficult third-act aria O patria...
...shoulder, a clawlike right hand, and two small bumps on his head where a plastic surgeon has removed the horns. When he looks at people, he is "like a succubus whose mouth is its eyes." In the short span of this hilarious novel, Douglas the Devil coaxes into mortal sin not only Humphrey Place but most of the first citizens in the South London district of Peckham...
...fact, a kind of welfare state Jane Austen, a novelist in whose hands the commonplace becomes mysteriously implausible, the routine eerily irrational. Unlike the scheming septuagenarians of her earlier novel, Memento Mori, the inhabitants of Peckham Rye are so determinedly average that they lack even the capacity to sin grandly. When Mr. Vincent Druce, the managing director of a small textile firm, visits his secretary, Miss Merle Coverdale, to make love to her in the evening, their activity is as carefully calculated as the time-motion studies with which Druce plagues his employees: dinner before the TV (Brussels sprouts with...