Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly so absurd a character, so warped and inadequate a mind, despite its coldblooded political discernment, could not in so short a time have worked such universal havoc if it had not embodied forces of evil in the world far greater than itself...
...race. The picture lacks, overall, a sense of what to emphasize and what to relax about - notably in its failure to make you constantly feel, or see enough of, the cavernous menace of the empty, busy house next door. There are, however, some flashes of really frightening evil in young Richard Lyon, and Gail Russell has a gift for conveying the shyly spirited, awkwardly exciting qualities proper to a beautiful governess who doesn't quite know her place...
Another point stressed by Karpovich was the "realism" that dominates the thinking of the country today. Instead of the fatalism now implied by the word, Karpovich would substitute the meaning of "recognition of an evil and a quest for a remedy...
William Ralph Inge (rhymes with sing), 84, retired "Gloomy Dean" of London's St. Paul's Cathedral, who once charged that Martin Luther (rather than Hitler) was the "evil genius" of Germany, let fly another rouser: "The truth is that it is difficult not to like the Germans when one meets them in private life. . . . I do not think that the mass of German people wanted this war. ... I cannot help hoping that if we have to occupy part of Germany we shall let our unwilling hosts see the best side...
...fevered lips parted and sounds came from them. They did not sound like words, but the young marine had caught the thread of prayer. Thickly he followed the passage: 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with...