... Cassius.In the 6th century, Gregory the Great formulated the traditional seven. The sins were ranked by increasing severity, and judged tobe the greatest offenses to the soul and the root of all other ... frigidity).As the author of a recent book on snobbery, one of Fleming’snew deadly sins, and as of the moment the country’s, perhaps the world’s, leading snobographer, I cannot resist listing the seven deadly ... wealth, power, the world’s love, and othergifts, or at any rate a larger share of them than I? Why not me?Dorothy Sayers, in a little book on the seven deadly sins, writes: “Envy is the great leveler:...