Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult to imagine a situation which bodes more evil for the future of college athletics. Fortunately, the injury in this case was only a minor concussion. What would have resulted if a more serious accident had taken place under similar circumstances is enough to give University officials a bad case of the jitters. And it's enough to lead to a serious questioning of the wisdom of continuing an athletic program which allows such incidents to occur...
...where others murder the classics, Hazel Scott merely commits arson. Classicists who wince at the idea of jiving Tchaikovsky feel no pain whatever as they watch her do it. She seems coolly determined to play legitimately, and for a brief while, triumphs. But gradually it becomes apparent that evil forces are struggling within her for expression. Strange notes and rhythms creep in, the melody is tortured with hints of boogie-woogie, until finally, happily, Hazel Scott surrenders to her worse nature and beats the keyboard into a rack of bones. The reverse is also true: into...
Philosopher Joad lapsed into agnosticism 30 years ago when, like many another sensitive intellectual, he "could not reconcile the existence of pain and evil with the Christian hypothesis." Like many another intellectual Dr. Joad felt that the greatest evils were social evils; rid the world of these and you get rid of most others. Social evils, he decided, were "the by-products of economic circumstances. . . . The inference was obvious: remove the circumstance . . . and you would abolish the byproduct evil." Now, like many another contrite intellectual, Dr. Joad can no longer believe this because "the evil in the world today...
...While we are fighting against the forces of evil, lawlessness and disorder in the world, we are primarily fighting to prevent the enslavement which actually threatens to be imposed upon us if we fail...
...experienced the feeling of elation and victory over his adversary when being beaten down by an ironbound club. To Gandhi, the Hindu philosophy translated into terms of democracy means "complete identification with the poorest of mankind, longing to live no better than they." To Nehru, poverty is an evil to be uprooted and corrected, not a burden to lie down with...