Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese. In an effort to salvage all they could from the political turmoil that went with military setbacks, the Generalissimo and Madame flew to India. There they talked with Gandhi and Nehru and they urged the Indians not to let their fight against what they considered one evil invite the way to another...
...solemn questioning of the optimistic view that human evil is due merely to human ignorance is being conducted by Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr of New York City's Union Theological Seminary. In Vol. I (Human Nature, TIME, March 24, 1941) of his work The Nature and Destiny of Man, Dr. Niebuhr found the roots of sin in pride and self-righteousness. In his second volume, Human Destiny (Scribner; $2.75), Dr. Niebuhr examines past and present interpretations of history...
...Human Comedy, though it inevitably leaves its grandiloquent title looking like a half-inflated blimp, is a very nice novel indeed. It is, unfortunately, too nice to be as good, as it might have been if Saroyan were capable not only of goodness but of a concern with evil...
Stout urged this bitterness primarily as a safeguard against chickenhearted United Nations action at the peace table. Said he: "If we do not . . . [hate] those who do or tolerate the evil, the temptation will be irresistible at one point or another, to compromise with it instead of destroying...
...main modern belief has been that World War II was to be the final showdown between the forces of evil and those of good will, and that victory for the side of the believer would necessarily be victory for the forces of good...