Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...influence on Rexford Guy Tugwell, George Soule, Stuart Chase and other New Deal economists has been profound. Anti-New Dealer Edgar M. Queeny (The Spirit of Enterprise), president of the Monsanto Chemical Co., has even gone so far as to make Veblen the source of practically all that is evil in modern America...
...main argument was that if we are to have a responsible citizenship, capable of serving the ends of democracy, it must be prepared for those tasks by education and training. And I wondered whether the evil of that kind of politicians whose attitude toward good government so frequently in negative, might not be reduced by more attention to the training of men for statesmanship. I suggested the commonplace which anyone who knows any thing at all ought to know, that in this particular, England has gone farther than we. But I said nothing about "selection," and the whole burden...
...more we shall see that the automatic, unconscious action of the mind enters largely into all its processes." No modern psychiatrist has improved on Holmes's pithy analysis of insanity as self-defense: "It may be that the state we call insanity is not always an unalloyed evil. It may take the place of something worse-the wretchedness of a mind not yet dethroned, but subject to the perpetual interference of another mind governed by laws alien and hostile to its own. Insanity may perhaps be the only palliative left to Nature in this extremity...
This was only one of many suggestions which Hugo Gernsback sent out for Christmas in a parody of one of his own magazines, Radio-Craft. Other Gernsback ideas in the burlesque publication included a "radiotronicar" which would hop over cross traffic, an electronic "evil eye" to paralyze burglars, and an electronic production line for inducting draftees...
...official dissemination of this misleading charge against United States Senators is a contemptible and indefensible act. The soldier who receives such a statement will believe that the facts alleged are true and, unless he receives at the same time a contradiction, he will be led to believe that something evil has been done in the United States Senate; that some sinister political chicanery has been accomplished for the purpose of depriving him of his right to vote; and that this has been done ... by trickery...