Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Indians murmur of these things. On one hand, says Juan, the Government argues that the spreading epidemic is a great national evil; everyone should contribute to stamping out the disease. On the other hand, local Sinarchist leaders (clerical fascists) shout that the campaign is turning the country into a vast slaughterhouse, that it will take more than a million cattle deaths to stamp out the disease. They argue until a man's head aches that campesinos are not being paid enough for their losses, that most of the sick cattle get well by themselves, that the 'European...
Author Miller does not apply the simple Biblical test for such prophets: "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit...
Modern Book of Job. If The Castle is a modern Pilgrim's Progress, The Trial is a 20th Century Book of Job. Like Job, Joseph K. is a good and upright man, one who fears God and eschews evil. The Trial reports his oncreeping sense of guilt as a human being and the slow progress of that divine, intangible, but inexorable Justice to which he therefore feels that he must submit ("You may object that it is not a trial at all; you are quite right, for it is only a trial if I recognize it as such...
...good Professor fails to comprehend that religion collectively has been one of the greatest psychic factors in the molding of human history, not the least evil of which has been Christianity. Religion is a man-made stumbling block...
...level accomplishment, the Commission saw "the greatest danger" to freedom. The giants of communication would either have to put their houses in order, or people might one day ask the Government to do it for them. Obviously government interference, "a last resort," would be a remedy worse than the evil. But the press's own record in self-regulation had not been good. The Production Code had merely made the movies inoffensive (in one sense); the radio was regulated by the unwritten code of advertisers "who will not risk making a single enemy. . . ." The American Society of Newspaper Editors...