Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...serious controversy over the peacetime draft. No one wants war less than I or any other soldier, but I can't believe that anyone, even the most cloistered educator, believes that greatness is a by-product of weakness. Power can be used to promote either a great evil or a great good, but weakness can promote nothing...
...College) signed a statement describing U.S. raids on Japan as "large-scale massacre ... of defenseless women and children . . . [which] cannot be so 'effective' in military terms as to justify itself in terms of humanity and the future peace of the world. . . . The Japanese are not all entirely evil...
...Cover) At last the victors met the German people. Not the Nazi Party, not the horror-masters of Buchenwald and Dachau, not the General Staff and the Wehrmacht, not Krupp's and I. G. Farbenindustrie, but the people, from whom all the evil and the vigor sprang...
...first consequence of this meeting was somewhat disturbing to the conquerors. In the inevitable amnesia of war, they had forgotten that they were fighting a people. It was easy to consider the German evil when Germany consisted of a tyrant and his tyrannies, of an army in impersonal battle, of bombs and submarines and, at the last, of the final anonvmity - air attack without airmen...
Prominent in this unpleasant situation is awl-eyed Sydney Greenstreet, a psychoanalyst who explains to married friends who would presumably know a shorter word for it that, according to Freud, "love" is the root of all evil. Physically appropriate as the frigid sister-in-law, Alexis Smith is less persuasive as an actress. On the other hand, Director Curtis Bernhardt and his colleagues exploit such action possibilities as the fierce, desolate murder scene with masterful detail, turn the story's emotions into something more cruel and vivid than a series of plot signposts...