Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against Nazism and Fascism. This puts him in an ideal position to point out the inconsistency of the professors' present isolationist position. In an essay published in 1940, when he was all of 21 and fresh out of Yale, Bundy wrote that "though war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils...
Lillian Hellman, L.H.D., playwright. She anatomizes evil at its heart and excises the pathology of sins against the spirit...
...Even assuming that Congress had reason to conclude that some Communists would use union positions to bring about political strikes," Warren said, "it cannot automatically be inferred that all members share their evil purposes or participate in their illegal activities. We do not hold today that Congress cannot weed dangerous persons out of the labor movement...
...fall of 1952, Harvard's name had become almost synonymous with all that was evil in education. During the Presidential campaign, Senator McCarthy twice made nation-wide speeches (the last on election eve in which he castigated Harvard Faculty members who supported Stevenson, particularly Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., '38, then associate professor of History, and Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. After the Eisenhower landslide, former Communist Granville Hicks, in testimony before the HUAC, gave an eyewitness' evidence that a cell of the Communist Party had indeed flourished at Harvard during the thirties. And within a week, Committee...
...many Baptists, the significance of these steps was not the formal condemnation of segregation-something that plenty of Baptist laymen and ministers have done for years-but the recognition by a new generation of church leaders that their traditional conception of sin and evil must be broadened. The Rev. Browning Ware, of Beaumont, Texas, expressed the general anxiety vividly. He questioned pastors who "buckle on the armor of protectors of public interest and rush to do battle with gambling, liquor, and separation of church and state" while taking little heed of "conflicts in human relations, adequate education, and poverty...