Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vocabularies of the partners were almost totally different. When Annabella first met Byron in 1812, he had just published Childe Harold and was the hero of London society. Annabella reported to her mother that she found him "a very bad, very good man ... He is sincerely repentant for the evil he has done, though he has no resolution (without aid) to adopt a new course of conduct and feeling." It took her no time to decide that she could provide precisely the aid he needed: "I consider it as an act of humanity and Christian duty not to deny...
...uncensored and outspoken monthly bulletin, Juventud Obrera, that demands free, Western-style labor unions, lashes out at the anachronistic sindicatos, which fix prices and wages throughout the country. Said journal Editor Francisco Guerrero, 25, describing his mission last week: "Our work is God's answer to the evil negation of all human values. It is the only salvation for Spain's masses, oppressed from above [by Franco] and menaced from below [by the Communists...
...prison cell, the cockroach struggles frantically to escape its burning bed of straw. "Confess you're not a saint," shouts one convict hovering over the minuscule pyre, "or else the fire of heaven will consume your flesh amid hideous sufferings." Cries another: "Confess that the Prince of Evil has appeared to you and seduced you, but that you see the light and that repentance floods your heart." But the roach says nothing and goes up in flames. "She's damned. God forgive...
...example, Amelia dies in childbirth, and Amaro arranges to have the baby murdered by an obliging nurse. Yet Queiroz is a prose master whose message wears better than most 19th century literary reformers. He is not simple-minded enough to believe that Rome is the root of all evil. His churchmen are protected by organized ecclesiastical hypocrisy, but their depravity is all their own. Queiroz' ultimate target is no single human institution but human nature itself...
...meantime, American atomic submarines polish off the hidden evil Russians, foiling their scheme for world domination. But this is secondary to the miracles of personality transformation that take place underground. With endless fanfare and speeches, Farr gives up his mistress and his wife gives up the bottle; the Japanese engineer and the Chinese student get together--but only after a painfully long dissertation on tolerance and race prejudice; the Vassar girl becomes very attached to a meter-reader and undertakes his education (he's really very bright); Farr's mistress proves that she has a heart of gold. Finally, after...