Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the start an autarchic colony, raising its own vegetarian food supplies, running its private bakery, print shop and greenhouses. For a time, the colony even had its own Siberia, a Lake Michigan island to which backsliders were banished to brood on their sins. Since man was evil, members could marry but were supposed to remain celibate-notwithstanding King Ben's example...
...still suspended somewhere between the campus and full manhood (in his room at home, his Eagle Scout badges are hung on a wall not far from his plastic-encased draft notice). One moment he will shrug boyishly about his draft call, expected in July, as a "necessary evil." Then he will turn studiedly philosophical, frowning heavily and puffing on a Raleigh cigarette as he says: "Most students I know are more worried about actually going into the military than they are about what'll happen after they're in. Their worries center around whatever dislocation and interruption...
...food, clothing-and an extra cot. When an elderly penitent insisted that God would never forgive her for having long ago abandoned her illegitimate baby on the steps of a church, Rabbi Singer told her to fast, pray and give alms, and reminded her that God has no evil...
...unlike some crack newspapermen and dedicated pamphleteers he did not, and does not, hold a conspiracy theory of history. For him the function of a newspaper is not so much to expose evil as to educate, to reduce the sum total of confusion and ignorance in the world. So the prospect of continuous battle to prevent unnecessary secrecy and unintentional accumulation of power must have been rather pleasing...
...been a horrible and evil man," said Somerset Maugham, past 91 and dying at a pace he found painfully slow. "Every one of the few people who have ever got to know me well has ended up by hating me." Then, as if to prove it, he would sit muttering angrily to himself, or fly into sudden rages at his guests. From the wrinkled nonagenarian mouth came the vilest obscenities, and he agonized over the mistakes in his life. "My greatest one was this. I tried to persuade myself that I was three-quarters normal and that only a quarter...