Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...energies defending "the intellectual relevance of the Bible." Heschel argues that the secular disciplines of philosophy or science are no help to man in solving the ultimate riddles of life. "Marx and Freud are interesting," he says, "but in extreme situations, such as in dealing with good and evil, do they lead anywhere? Science presupposes a certain aspect of being, but is it the ultimate?" Heschel answers no, and says that in the long run of time, "the prophet may be more relevant than the scientist...
Spry and witty, Brown remained "an incorrigible optimist," whose concern for cold war crises never destroyed his belief that the power of righteousness is greater than the power of evil. "Despite our inner conflicts and tensions and our outerspace contests," he would say, "we're going to survive. We'll not only survive; we will prevail...
...claims will be more responsive to coachs' suggestions and more adaptable to the needs of college athletes. The NCAA charges the AAU has "failed miserably" in providing clinics, extensive training and performance research, and provision for post-graduate competition. According to the AAU, the Federations are "revolutionary" (and therefore evil...
Elah, wherever it may be in Vermont, and with smooth stones vanquish all the philistine forces of evil which either threaten or jeopardize this Republic." Whereupon the Senate re-elected Carl Hayden as president pro tempore...
...sort of historical travelogue rather than a novel. It tells a reader all he needs to know-or will want to-of a semibarbarous land and time when a Sin-Eater was still summoned to the side of the dead to draw out the last vestiges of evil...