Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution did not lie in the partisans' theory that "all good flows from their own party and all political evil from the other." Said Earl Warren: "The vast majority of Americans know . . . that good Americans are to be found in both parties. They realize that there are progressives and conservatives in the ranks of both. They know that party affiliation does not change human instincts or affect loyalty to country ... No party has a patent on progress, a copyright on governmental principles or a proprietary interest in the advances made in former days...
...Topping three days after Topping's divorce, was formally reproved by his elders. The rebuke, read aloud to him as he stood with head bowed, accused him of having "brought reproaches upon your Christian profession," and warned him to "be more watchful" in future of "the common evil of the remarriage of divorced persons...
...fall back exhausted by their civilized exhibitionism, each one's argument largely canceled out by all the others. There can be little doubt that Santayana is speaking for himself as referee when The Stranger says: "A good life seems to me a good, and a bad life an evil; but life and death simply are neither good nor evil in my eyes. Life is an opportunity or occasion for good and evil alike, and death is an insurance against both." If Santayana has a "system," it is hopelessly lost among the flourishes of such adroit naturalistic fencing...
...Rumanian prisoners of war into the Red army's Tudor Vladimires-cu division-named for a fierce 19th Century Rumanian peasant leader who rebelled against the boyars. His outlook and literary style was much like that of a modern Communist. Sample: "No laws can prevent you from returning evil for evil. If a serpent crosses your path, hit it and kill...
When Rumania was "liberated" by the Red army, Colonel Ana Pauker returned with her regiment to the country from whose squalor and jails she had risen. She proceeded to return evil for evil-and, in true Communist fashion, evil for good. Because she wanted to play along with his Liberal Party for a while, she left Tata-rescu, who had jailed her, in the Foreign Ministry for two years; but Maniu, who had helped her, she clapped into prison. Said she: "In his old age, Maniu has earned his rest." Maniu is now dying, still behind bars...