Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from condoning the evil, the Church strives to eradicate it: It refuses to renew leases upon expiration "without satisfactory safeguards against the property being put to immoral use." What is more, the Church is "forgoing some ?5,000 [$20,000] a year income" by such refusals. But Church officials will not sell or give away the land because that "would simply be ridding [the Church] of the direct stigma of responsibility without any assurance that the evil would cease...
Fascismo's evil spell had been broken. Now through the streets and squares of Italy the people surged and strained to shape their destiny. It was a grand, awesome, chaotic hour in the life of a nation...
Germany. The Italian collapse caught Hitler's evil wizard Paul Joseph Goebbels unprepared. All last week he gave the German people only the barest factual details while he floundered from one explanation to another. Pessimism was rampant. Wrote the German-controlled Brüsseler Zeitung: "At present we rest our hopes exclusively on our own military strength, for there is nothing else to hope...
...Across each of his novels runs a barricade ; the opposed forces on each side are Good and Evil in the forms of Life and Death, Light and Darkness, Fertility and Sterility, Courage and Respectability, Intelligence and Stupidity- all the great absolutes that are so dull when discussed in themselves." But the comic manner, which Forster affects, "will not tolerate absolutes." It stands on Novelist For ster's "barricade" and smiles with maddening good humor on both sides. In this comic manner lies a method: "The fierce plots move forward to grand simplicities, but the comic manner confuses the issues...
...Cricket? Liberals have always preferred the game of good v. evil, "the old intellectual game of antagonistic principles. It is an attractive game because it gives us the sensation of thinking, and its first rule is that if one of two opposed principles is wrong, the other is necessarily right." The importance of Forster's work is that he will not play this game; or he plays it only to make...