Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist Party established its own ties and it held on through foreign intervention and civil war. Unlike other revolutions, its victory did not wash away as the victors relaxed. The victors never relaxed. Though the Trotskyites scream to the contrary, Russia today has not departed far from the magnificent evil of Lenin's conception...
Beatrice Webb was thoroughly British in her experimentalism: observing the evil effects of the haphazardness and irrationality of the economic processes of the 1880's, she refused to echo Marx in attributing the evils to economic factors alone, but tried through methodical research to discover the causes of poverty and unemployment, and to improve social conditions gradually, through an extension of the existing state machinery. Measurement and publicity were her key words, and her approach was almost mathematical in her passion for statistics, and her belief that once statistics were published and brought to nation-wide attention, social reform would...
Method & Error. Professor Northrop, who teaches the philosophy of science at Yale, will not abide condemnation of science as such. "Nothing," he says, "can do more harm to democracy than the thesis, so popular with many contemporary moral and religious leaders, that science is neutral, if not positively evil, with respect to human values...
...splinter of Christianity. But the effort is well made and to better purpose than merely striving to please. In opposition to those who would force all Protestants into a Procrustean bed of "unity" (as the Christian Century's fiery Charles Clayton Morrison would), Author Hedley sees no innate evil in sectarianism as such. To him each denomination is a division in the mighty army of Christ, bearing different designations, emblems and proud traditions. Says...
...William Seabrook, late, hard-drinking popularizer of the incredible: "Before an altar surmounted by a crucifix turned upside down, and on which the girl who is a virgin lies naked, the black-robed priest intones parts of the true Mass backward, in dog Latin, substituting the word 'evil' for 'good' and the word 'Satan' for 'God.' The prostitute, robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over her body...