Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last fortnight Dean Inge replied to public protests against his objection to the bombing of German cultural monuments. Said he: "There is evidently a most evil temper among our civilians. . . . Philip Sober will [yet] be heartily ashamed of Philip Drunk...
...years has resisted change just off Cooper Square, where Manhattan's skidroad-the Bowery-ends. McSorley's has also provided a haven for Manhattan's literary transients-writers, newshawks, painters, poets (grateful Poet e. e. cummings once immortalized mcsorley's: "Inside snug and evil. ... the Bar tinkling luscious jigs dint of ripe silver with warmlyish wetflat splurging smells waltz the glush of squirting taps. . . ." The venerable saloon still has soup bowls instead of cash registers, gas lights over the bar, a rack of clay and corncob pipes for free smokes on the house. Under portraits...
...forces now opposed to you are pledged to destroy the power of Nazi Germany. . . . The sole hope for Italy's survival lies in honorable capitulation to the overwhelming power of the military forces of the United Nations. If you continue to tolerate the Fascist regime, which serves the evil power of the Nazis, you must suffer the consequences of your own choice...
...after Munich the evil tidings out of Europe and Asia began to swamp the State Department. . . . Slowly, reluctantly, hesitantly, Franklin Roosevelt abandoned his isolation...
More & more, in Stewart's opinion, newspapers are striving not merely to present unrelated facts to their readers but also to draw the line between good & evil. Stewart's examples of this trend: the rise of the trail-blazing newspaper columnists, who "helped the reader get his own bearings"; the birth of PM, dedicated to opinionated reporting. And even the Times, Stewart points out, "would not now pretend to be neutral about the Nazis...