Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artist Guy Rowe's biblical illustrations for In Our Image [TIME, Oct. 10] indeed prove that people of today evince the same features of sufferance and salvation, of burden and rest, of good and evil as did our ancestors...
...policy as a bulwark against the Communist threat to freedom would find little satisfaction in some other Nehru remarks of the week: "We have no intention to commit ourselves to anybody at any time . . . How can peace be preserved? Not by surrendering to aggression, not by compromising with evil or injustice, but also not by talking and preparing...
...Canterbury and vice president of the Alliance, society for the encouragement of sex education, backed the demand. "I am not saying," he insisted, "that the obtaining of contraceptives in the ordinary way by adults should be curtailed. It is the indiscriminate, uncontrolled provision of them that is entirely evil. Children growing up in a world in which it is hard for them to avoid knowing too much about sex . . . now find it blatantly easy to turn their knowledge into practice...
...Assurance. In the long view of history, says Schlesinger, "We delude ourselves when we think that history teaches us that evil will be 'outmoded' by progress and that politics consequently does not impose on us the necessity for decision and struggle . . . History is not a redeemer, promising to solve all human problems in time; nor is man capable of transcending the limitations of his being...
...people frown on non-scholarly work and no field more than politics. A few are sincerely concerned. A young editor of the Catholic weekly in Vienna told me, "I am glad I had the Nazi experience, for I feel that only the people who knew it can understand its evil and tell others." But the tendency of the upper class youth is to shake their heads and ask, "What can I do? I'am not a socialist nor a Catholic, and they are in power...