Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Americans had no more idea that there is a problem of history than that there is a problem of evil. And they had been so busy creating the world's first great technology that they had little more notion than the Indians they had supplanted what a civilization is or what to do with...
James Walker was satisfyingly oily as the evil Fatt and the other incarnations Odets gives him, and Helen McCloskey was impressive as Joe's inspiring wife, Edna. The only other standout in a very competent cast was John Mann, who in the difficult role of Agate Keller was almost perfect, setting a fine pace at the beginning of his famous closing speech and faltering only in his failure to maintain a crescendo of voice until the final cry of "Strike...
Most Harvardians never see the Head Proctor except when they are at their psychological worst, eyes glazed, fingers aching, brain whirling; and the idea is thus prevalent that he is some sort of evil genius who emerges from under the eaves only at such moments, expressly to interfere with their trains of thought. Actually he has interests which extend well beyond the dismal confines of Memorial and New Lecture Halls and Emerson D. He cuts quite a figure locally at the Cambridge Skating Club. But whenever his inquistional activities give him enough time off, he hurries north to his farm...
...plan did away with the age-old difference in elementary and high-school pay scales on the grounds that "it is just as important to get good teaching for children in the grade schools as for children in the high schools." The new plan also struck at an evil that had corroded the New York City, Buffalo and Rochester school systems for years: it nearly doubled the pay of substitute teachers, thereby all but wiped out the sweatshop system of "permanent substitutes." (There are 5,500 New York State substitutes, some of whom have been teaching regularly for ten years...
...more readily victimize the Councils. The use of the preferential ballot has been beneficial in preventing minority-backed candidates from finishing first. The present election procedure is by no means perfect in this respect, but it does mark departure from the antiquated idea that all political division is an evil...