Word: deviousness
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...orthodoxies and heresies of history, through good book, bad books, and mediocre books. Harvard deserved more than Virginia, the great inscription of Thomas Jefferson, 'Here we fear no heresy where truth is free to combat error.'" But he noted also contrary forces, "a clever subtile devil, appearing in devious ways." Sometimes his attack has been frontal, as "when a century age there was a restriction on anti-slavery discussion. . .or when he appeared in the guise of gentility to suggest that Dunster House students would not profit by reading Norman Douglas' South Wind. . .Here today we mark the opening...
There was no reason whatsoever that a group formed to back the Democratic party should allow a minority of Shivercrats to use either the group's name or funds. But this is just what happened. By rather devious means, the minority spent roughly $60 on a beer party, an advertisement, and a pamphlet disparaging the Democratic party...
Justice Felix Frankfurter, who got to the same point by a more devious route. "To those who are overwhelmed by a sense of spontaneous emergency," he said, "let me say that this case did not arise spontaneously. These disputes are a long time in the making...
...wherever possible, and speeding along in a clear, scholarly style, Gamow develops the universe from a primordial, exploding "something" to the currently popular, expanding, gravitationally unstable dust cloud. Then follows the accepted course through local condensations to the bare, rocky planets circling--about their central suns, and thence, by devious organic evolution, to mankind...
...borrows from liberal society. The rise of Communism he compares to the rise of Islam and its challenge to Christian civilization in the Middle Ages. Communism, like Islam, has exploited many just and legitimate grievances against the society it found, and the fight against it is automatically complex and devious. It may be impossible to stamp it out. The U.S., like the Crusaders,*-may have to watch its enemy decline only through "its own inner corruptions...