Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Destiny of Man. But Niebuhr did not construct an either-or theology, one that views man as living either in sin or in grace. His is a both-and theology, one that closely adheres to the Biblical conception of the paradoxical coexistence of sin and grace, good and evil. This strong reassertion of the central paradox of the Gospels, wrote the Rev. D. R. Davies in his study of Niebuhr's thought, constitutes "one of the most vital and profound contributions to contemporary Christian thought." This concept is akin to the mystery of faith-in St. Paul...
...When you become a target of the Ku Klux Klan," he told the broadcasters, "you soon learn that if there ever was a devil on the face of this earth, it lives, it breathes, it functions in the cloaked evil of the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Philip Wylie has profitably lambasted Mom, Pop, the common man, the businessman, the scientific man, sexy advertising, and American apathy in the face of potential nuclear disaster. Now he reports his latest revelation. Incestuous feelings are natural and healthy, but the fear of incest is the root of all evil. He discovers very TIME, NOVEMBER 5, 1965 little that is not evil in this tour through the libidinal jungle, which he ponderously describes through the eyes of a hero named - ahem - Philip Wylie. Commissioned to write the biography of an aging financier-philanthropist, Hero Wylie discovers that the old tycoon...
...Lyndon Johnson is the man who has mastered the engine that drives America." He is quick to concede that "like all of us, the President has his faults," but reasons: "This country needs a strong, vigorous President, unaccustomed to living tamely. There is some misconception that power is evil. If one pursues power as an end in itself, that is bad, yes. But little progress can come without power, political or spiritual...
...with the fundamentalists back home. He smokes half-a-dozen long, thin, 25? Fiesta Brazil cigars every day; he even took to sipping a few watered-down bourbons each week. As a result, he has received quite a few "Brother Moyers" letters from hard-shell Baptists who have heard evil rumors of his dissolute ways. Only recently, he decided to give up drinking altogether-not only because of the furor but also to please his stern-principled parents. It was just as well, for he only recently brought a peptic ulcer under control. To keep it so, he quaffs quarts...