Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paul A. Lee's review of the two books on Eichmann is far more engaging. He defends Hannah Arendt's thesis that Eichmann is "banal," rather than a "monster of evil," characterizing him as "an efficient, hard-working administrator, who took no thought of the moral consequences of his actions because such reflection was beyond his capacities...
...LADY OF THE FLOWERS, by Jean Genet. Written in prison, this first novel by the author of The Blacks is part scatology, part pornography, and a monstrous, well-sustained literary diary of a man's single-minded pursuit of evil in search of his own soul...
...maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust...
With the impartiality of sun and rain, Supreme Court decisions take no account of whether individuals are evil or good, just or unjust. Under the Constitution, the hood has the same inalienable rights as the law-abiding citizen...
...letter to Berlin's Bishop Konrad von Preysing: "We leave it to the pastoral leaders on the spot to weigh whether and to what degree the danger of retaliation and pressure in case of remonstration by bishops make it appear advisable to exercise restraint to prevent greater evil, despite the listed grievances. Here lies one of the reasons why we ourselves impose limitations on ourselves in our public utterances...