Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chief protest against the plan was the trend away from House independence toward more centralized control. This was the feeling voiced at the meeting by Roger B. Merriman '96, retiring Master of Eliot House, who saw in the plan "much that is good and much evil...
After so many evil tidings, the news looked a little better. Germany's Rommel had chased the broken, retreating British 325 miles in eleven days, had rammed his armored spearheads down the coastal desert from Matrûh, taking the flyspeck towns on the railroad to Alexandria like peas ripped from a pod. Now for four days Rommel had not advanced...
Radio can send children searching for box tops to trade for tin whistles, or it can send them to the library to hunt good books; it can train them to expect a world in which a masked man on horseback holds off evil singlehanded, or it can train them to find and play their own role in society. Which type of program do American parents want? A woman who took part in the first children's program ever given in the U.S. has put out a slender book (All Children Listen; George W. Stewart; $1.50) calling on parents...
...them, seven "dynamic forces" spell war or peace. They hold that evil men merely light the fuses for civilization's great explosions; the explosive makings are already there. These seven forces, say Messrs. Hoover & Gibson, will be at the coming peace table: "Ideological, economic, nationalistic, imperialistic, and militaristic pressures, and the witches of fear, hate and revenge will participate in every discussion. But on the other hand, the prayers of a stricken world for a lasting peace will echo through those halls. The seven dynamic forces have survived every crisis. They will be with us again. We know...
DESIGN IN EVIL-Rufus King-Crime Club ($2). Shanghaied Manhattan maiden on an outbound motor cruiser is in a sad plight when a psychiatrist insists that she is schizophrenic, and the subsequent stabbing of a frightened woman is charged to her account. A tempest-tossed thriller with interesting psychological overtones...