Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Interpretations of history have been truer to the Christian experience when they have said that God is battling the hosts of evil-Satan, or the 'principalities and powers,' or the antiChrist. The conflict is real. Wicked men defy God's purpose and His will is distorted and disobeyed. This has been the course of history, and it will be the same if men turn atomic energy to human destruction...
...Lear, Crown; $5). To the world, Bachelor Delacroix was the urbane, self-confident son of a prosperous lawyer-obviously gifted, and smooth as silk in company. To his friends, he was "like the crater of a volcano artistically hidden by bouquets of flowers." Wrote the author of Flowers of Evil...
...feel bound . . . publicly to denounce the systematic and sinister anti-Catholicism of organized groups like the committee of ministers which last week returned to this country from Yugoslavia. . . . The damage is being done by men who-may God forgive them-are introduced as 'Reverend.' . . . We live in evil times when things can happen like the sell-out to Tito of the eight Protestant clergymen who were hand-picked to defend Tito's war on religion. . . . It is a problem for our non-Catholic neighbors when seven of their clergymen can become conspirators in a Communist campaign without...
...obscure educators of America for whom he speaks take heart at General Eisenhower's appointment. When American universities become such big business that only the leader of the world's greatest concentration of men and mechanical might is fit to head one of them, the evil is not a "grotesque choice" but the complacence of the educators who have fostered or countenanced such a growth...
...theologians call a Fall. He's never been the same since-not on his own. . . . The whole of the Bible and the whole of the ministry of Jesus, as I understand it, were designed not to persuade man how good he is on his own, but how evil he is on his own. And how good, by the process of redemption ... he can become...