Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agnostic days Joad used to be fond of saying: "When the mind becomes old and begins to decay, it becomes matted with God-webs." Joad's own mind grew God-webby as World War II grew more terrible. He began to doubt that evil was something that could be cured by socialism, progressive schools and psychoanalysis. He now says with a grin: "In that view, a world of adequately psychoanalyzed Communists would be the millennium...
Having returned to the Anglican faith of his childhood, Believer Joad worships regularly at his parish church in Hampstead or at the church near his Hampshire country place. But he has lost none of his saucy skill at dialectic. He explained last week: "When war came, the existence of evil hit me in the face. . . . Human progress is possible, but so unlikely. People don't know how to conceive it." Wrote Pessimist Joad shortly after the end of the war: "I see now that evil is endemic in man, and that the Christian doctrine of original sin expresses...
...bloody raids of the Mauretanians, the Chief Ranger "administered fear in small doses which he gradually increased, and which aimed at crippling resistance. The role he played in the disorders . . . was that of a power for order . . . like an evil doctor who first encourages the disease so that he may practice on the sufferer. . . ." To terrorize his opponents the Chief Ranger has a "flaying-hut" where "a skull was nailed fast, showing its teeth and seeming to invite entry with its grin. . . . Such are the dungeons above which rise the proud castles of the tyrants, and from them...
Money, although sometimes the root of all evil, is not the root of industry as far as College undergraduates are concerned, a survey of annual prize competitions totaling $13,000 disclosed yesterday...
...good man, and his death in the wake of the Communist revolution is a severe shock to the entire world, not only in its personal aspect, but in its symbolism as well. Many people will believe that any action which resulted in this man's suicide must necessarily be evil...