Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commend Dr. Norbett G. Talbott (TIME, Feb. 7) for making what millions of Christians will think was the right choice. . . . Those of us who have been associated with young people for many years know that, in the long run, they have little respect for one who compromises with evil. To expect a Christian minister to arrange for the "boys" a liquor party and to condone promiscuity by giving talks on prophylactics is asking too much of Christian tolerance...
...federal ballot-he called it a "bobtailed monstrosity"-because it was unconstitutional. His voice quavered, and his lean finger pointed toward the skylight as he talked of the Constitution. Nothing else would sway John Rankin. "When my conscience is clear . . . I am not afraid of all the forces of evil, everything from Drew Pearson to PM and back to Wendell Will-ah, Walter Winchell." He closed by reciting the whole of Invictus, and as he came to the final "I am the captain of my soul" his voice dropped to the stentorian stage whisper of the ancient ham actor...
...Macumba devotees the chicken has great significance as a receptor of evil spirits. A practical-joking American in Brazil once put a dead chicken outside a friend's house. The servants vanished...
...amalgam resulted in men who were half superstitious, half realistic. The superstitious half became concerned with ethical values, the realistic half with how to get ahead. Says Baldwin: ". . . Sound common sense taught him that in a practical world, while there might be some good, there must also be considerable evil and brutality; therefore God must agree to wink at a reasonable modicum of wickedness. Wars and a minimum of chicanery must be permitted, though the party of the second part agreed to find good moral reasons for them. . . . So Christianity has been an embalming fluid that has preserved the peasant...
...find his readers interested in theological matters ("except why evil is in the world") and he found that "more people are bored and irked by life than are hurt by it." He has good documentation for his findings. While he was writing Everyday Religion, he received some 90,000 letters from his readers...