Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems evil until...
...peasant boy is imprisoned for feeding barley to a hen; a pastor for calling his congregation to account before God for their cowardly acceptance of evil. A professor of law delivers, to the delight of his students, a perverse, seditious lecture on theories of Nazi justice. A sailor is shot for having attended a workers' mass meeting in Manhattan. The local head of the Gestapo cracks under the strain to his decency, warns the city's Jews on the eve of the pogrom of November 1938. In the closing story a mediocre Nazi writer rediscovers his honesty, gets...
...relations between college undergraduates and Cambridge citizens. Since colonial days a seldom crossed no-man's-land of mutual misunderstanding has separated City and College. To the Cambridge citizen, Harvard seems a red-bricked baronial estate, overrun with bow-tied plutocratic playboys. To the student, Cambridge is a necessary evil of place-where, filled with strangers in the street. Mythologies like these can be liquidated. A town-gown playground project...
...dead level and debase the citizenry into a mass of ballot-casting serfs. In this conviction he is deadly serious. He regards the New Dealers as brigands & thugs, intent on robbing U. S. voters of their precious heritage of independence, on stifling free enterprise -a band of evil men masquerading as humanitarians. If by some evil chance Roosevelt should be re-elected in 1940, it will mean, he thinks, the end of the road, the death of the American way. When he talks of this nefarious possibility, his big eyebrows twitch, his face darkens. Said he last week: "The Republican...
...stomach neither Transcendentalism nor the common democratic optimism of his day. In a whaler's forecastle he learned the worst about human nature, in the vast and empty sea he discerned the unknowable mystery of God, in the earthly paradise of the South Seas cannibalism reminded him of evil. He concluded, says Gabriel, that "he who would be a man must stop running with the Christians to the everlasting arms, must cease deluding himself with Emerson that the constitution of the universe is on his side." Democracy he saw as a moment in history, not as history...