Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most debatable point is that Dante used the Inferno for personal vindictiveness, to damn his political enemies, while demonstrating extreme lenience toward old friends like Brunetto Latini. Dante's work is primarily an inward journey into the soul of everyman and an exposure of the possibilities of evil therein. The figures that Dante encounters, therefore, symbolize evils that the poet condemns in himself as well as in others...
...have to chjoose," said Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., "and for my part, I think it less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part." Thus, speaking in 1928, Mr. Justice Holmes not only descried one of the most hotly debated social issues of the '60s, but foreshadowed as well the present-day philosophy of a Supreme Court that has done more than any other in U.S. history to bolster the rights of the individual against "ignoble" government power. In so doing, the court in recent years has wrought a revolution in criminal...
...banked the robber barons, eventually scrambled to the top of a $100 million heap. Sarnoff also makes it clear, sometimes inadvertently, that Sage was a liar, a swindler, and a vivid illustration of that cliché about the desire for money being the root of all evil...
...people in our society who spend their lives trying to salvage living souls from the whirring junkheap of robothood. His books glitter with the joy of life, and they are capable of leading any halfway open-minded citizen to a point where he can deal with evil...
...Indy hands had to admire the way the "sporty-car" driver from Scotland held his bucking car steady and braked it to a stop on the infield grass ("Of course," added Rodger Ward, "if he didn't, his tail would've been a grape"). The same evil luck dogged Clark in Europe all summer: he won three out of his first five Grand Prix, seemed well on his way to a second straight championship when all sorts of little things started going wrong. In France it was a hole in a piston, in Germany a broken valve. Clark...