Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first hand, all this time, Alex watches Fascism become real, become bold, become imperious. A decent man, he is dismayed by what he sees; a muddled man, he hangs onto the hope that somehow good will come of evil; a man whose stake is in the status quo, he instinctively makes out a case for appeasement. No figure of real power himself, Alex yet remains the spokesman for the official blunders, delays, defections that made Munich no terminus but merely the last stop before Armageddon...
Recently the Russian choreographer Igor Schwezoff brought The Poppy up to date. With a deft tour-en-l'air of the choreographic party line, Schwezoff abolished the evil British commander, converted Tai Hoa's murderer into a Japanese, added a British and a U.S. sailor (both very agreeable fellows), ended with the murder, not of Tai Hoa, but of the Japanese. The Manhattan audience did not seem to mind these alterations. As the Internationale burst from the City Center's orchestra, the crowd broke into cheers...
...woman or child anywhere who, in the degree to which the war directly touched him, or the degree to which he was capable of compassion, did not suffer a personal Golgotha, did not share the hope, paradoxical by all rational processes, that out of the war's crucifying evil some great good must be resurrected...
Christian Service. "The whole congregation, habitually worshiping together, should regularly meet to plan and carry out some common enterprise for the general good; if there are social evils in a locality, such as bad housing or malnutrition, let them consider how evil can be remedied...
...Missing Girls" exposes the bitter truth about the secret evil that warps clean young souls, ruins strong bodies, and shatters brilliant minds. Did you know that 50,000 young girls disappear every year? Where do they go? What do they do? The answer to these perplexing questions originally ran to ten full reels, but the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has done us the favor of deleting the more boring passages and the version at the Gayety has been reduced...