Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comics prepare a child for life. Let us accept the facts; life is not sweet." "I have found a moral decline in Walt Disney's comics," announced Professor Giovanni Bertin. "The positive character Mickey Mouse has been replaced by the negative Donald Duck. The emergence of an evil Donald Duck is a bad omen for American mores...
...opportunity to obtain justice under law," declared U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren. There were no dissenters. Obliquely and directly, a wide variety of panel speakers agreed that the basis of any orderly world community is the rule of law-law viewed not negatively as a social defense against evil but as a positive force for social order. Philip Jessup of the International Court of Justice argued that law today is not only a series of prohibitions but "the mechanism by which society has created devices for people to work together for common ends." Internationally, this kind of positive law includes...
...great moment in which something new is created, in which the Kingdom of God breaks into history conquering destructive structures of existence. This means that we cannot hope for a final stage of justice and peace within history; but we can hope for partial victories over the forces of evil in a particular moment of time...
Speaking for repeal, Bishop Robert L. DeWitt of Pennsylvania said: "Our church, like every other church, has said over and over again that discrimination, condescension and segregation are evil and of the devil. The Delta Ministry is located in one diocese. But those school bells, those courthouse bells, those church bells toll for us all." Chairman of the Delta Ministry, Paul Moore, suffragan bishop of Washington, was even more impassioned: "God is working through this movement. I've never sensed the Holy Spirit as I did in Mississippi...
...film immense scale and ponderousness at the expense of pace; it is practically a series of paintings. The conspiring boyars stare malignantly from the shadows, Ivan stands, kneels, and writhes before fearsome religious images, great armies, and burning cities. There is almost no relief from the sheer weight of evil...