Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. - Phyllis McGinley

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Always on Monday morning the Press reports </br> God as revealed to His vicars in various guises— </br> Benevolent, stormy, patient, or out of sorts. </br> But only God knows which God God recognizes.

The other day I chanced to meet </br> An angry man upon the street— </br> A man of wrath, a man of war, </br> A man who truculently bore </br> Over his shoulder, like a lance, </br> A banner labeled "Tolerance."