Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dips deeply into his reservoirs of energy, belligerency and profanity when dealing with these forces of evil, but he does so with a comparatively relaxed air-something like a lion-tamer lobbing house cats into the chandelier of a Sunday morning. His real enemies are the phonograph record and its cousins, the motion picture sound track and the radio station turntable. He is mortally afraid that without James Caesar Petrillo, all the music in the U.S. would eventually be produced by one non-union musician playing a musical comb into a microphone...
...College began to realize the full measure of the immorality with which the tutoring schools were covering the name of Harvard toward the end of the last decade. Students and Faculty abandoned their complacence, and the evil disappeared. Any student who attends a professional tutoring school in 1948 is courting separation from the University...
...obvious to any thinking man today that this evil trend, if allowed to continue, will inexorably foment Communism and all such foreign-born philosophies, particularly in colleges and labor unions...
...Only Pray." Japan perhaps struck the keynote for the world. Throughout the islands, huge gongs sounded 108 times-each stroke to counter one human evil in the new year (which was a conservative estimate). The year thus heralded was called the year of Ne (the Mouse)-traditionally a year of activity, humility, but also of the plenty for which all yearned. Emperor Hirohito offered his subjects two New Year's poems, written by himself. One advised: "Emulate the strength of the pine trees of the seashore, which stand the fierce sea breezes of the four seasons...
...Truman is, therefore, on the side of "right" against "evil." In a vague way he favors doing good. But he has not proposed a specific program for promoting any of these goals. His method is in sharp contrast to that of his predecessor who made recommendations to Congress at the same time that he had one of his party members in Congress introduce a bill embodying his suggestions...