Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hair and Mr. Turtle-Liver thought that the yellow men had come from the spirit world. Whether the yellow men were good or evil spirits, Messrs. Pig's-Hair, Turtle-Liver and the other naked Negritos of the Andaman Islands did not yet know. The little blacks had just seen the British leave the Officers' Club and its lovely promenade on Ross Island in Port Blair's harbor, the weather station and the stores in Port Blair itself, and sail off to India across the Bay of Bengal...
Says Artist Benton: "Evil and predatory forces are always with us. . . . Humanity must . . . rise up and tear their evil out of them and kill them. For this task, sensual hate, ferocity and brute will are necessary. . . . In these designs there is none of the pollyanna fat that the American people are in the habit of being fed. I have made these pictures for all Americans who will look at them...
...McDonald had really always wanted to go back to farming. At 62 he made up his mind to do it. He hated towns. "Jefferson was right when he said that cities were evil [population of Sallisaw: 1,500]." But the two things that made Old McDonald maddest were the way Oklahoma farmers refused to plant anything but cotton, and the way they let their fields erode. He detested cotton worse than sin, and erosion more than murder. He said so in church and out. "All of this here," he told one irate farmer, pointing to the 15-ft. gullies...
...phenomenon as the Black Market. While the Government raged about it (TIME, March 9), the price of garden tools quadrupled. Even the venders in Piccadilly Circus charged two shillings for a bunch of violets that before the war cost threepence-an outrageous sixpence at the most. It was an evil thing that was springing...
When a Hindu wants attention, he beats on a gong. To drive away evil luck, he blows a bleating blast on a sankha, an instrument shaped like a big ocarina. Last week, in Manhattan's tiny Carnegie Chamber Music Hall, there was both gong-beating and sankha-blowing. The occasion was an evening of Hindu dances, put on by two Hindus, Bhupesh Guha and Sushila, who live, teach and foster their dance troupe in the backwaters of Manhattan...