Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope the jury is a group of Godfearing people who will be able to overlook the commandment "Thou shalt not kill" and use, as a basis for their verdict, "An eye for an eye," and then punish these creatures accordingly. May I be forgiven for my evil thoughts of wanting a murder...
Awareness of Evil. Despite its sweeping concerns, Commentary is essentially a Jewish magazine. It was started and subsidized by the American Jewish Committee, which was anxious to reaffirm Jewish life and traditions after Hitler. But from the very first issue, Commentary avoided the insularity and defensiveness typical of many Jewish publications. In a revulsion against radical ideology, Editor Eliot Cohen sought out strong individual opinion and refused to tout any political line. In the 1950s, Commentary became a leading exponent of so-called "liberal revisionism," an attempt to make liberal thought less dogmatic, more aware of life's evils...
...less general level, there are a number of objections which can be raised about the exam. The exam creates the impression that the U.S. is evil and the Viet Cong always good. Although the quotation from Johnson in the first question: "I would like to see American students develop as much fanaticism about the U.S. political system as young Nazis did about their system during the war," is probably accurate, it has been so torn out of context that it means nothing except that the President used an unfortunate phrase. An isolated phrase, however, in no way proves that these...
...that un-Irish condition. All of them turn on Trellis, afflict him with more boils (64) than Job's, and provoke him to a robust curse: "You hog of hell, you leper's death-puke!" A bleak, black coda to the book-within-a-book says enigmatically: "Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop." Was Trellis mad? It is hard to say. Was he a victim of hallucinations? Professor Unternehmer, the German neurologist, allows Trellis "an inverted sow neurosis, wherein the farrow eats their...
...spates obscurities like a jejune Joyce; at his best he generates images like the navel of the demiurge itself. And the images reflect ideas. Gass is a trained thinker, a professor of philosophy at Purdue University, and in this fable he enlivens the weary old war between good and evil with curt communiqués and rakingly comic crossfire...