Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anarchist thrust," as you put it, "leads nowhere," so does Marx's thrust, for his predicted future society, classless and stateless, without law and economic scarcity, free from disharmony and all evil, is no goal but a pipedream...
Despite reports to the contrary, it is the hot dog, not apple pie, that is the supremely typical American dish. Or at least it used to be, before it fell on evil times. These days, an Agriculture Department hearing was told last week, franks average as much as 32.% fat, 11% more than the franks of the '50s. Some go as high as 51%-leading to the question of whether the product should be called a fatfurter...
Increases in interest rates have usually been tolerated as a necessary evil in the fight against inflation. Last week, after announcing the fifth rise in the prime rate since December, U.S. bankers were greeted by an uncommon backlash. Criticism of the move came not only from the perennial easy-money advocates but from other responsible sources. Their contention was that the bankers have been just too cavalier about the cost of money...
...remade until it seems ready to become a staple of film culture, like the western. The Boys of Paul Street, a joint U.S.-Hungarian production, maintains the tradition without illuminating it. Still, its decelerated rhythms and nostalgic photography provide a rare glimpse of that era when good and evil were different colors and student protest was a whispered grievance in a corridor...
...know of no better description of what has brought on these offenses than one offered thirty years ago by the English historian Maurice Powicke, when he spoke of the "the moral paralysis which can afflict men when evil, is measured only through the medium of statistics and the responsibility for it can be laid at no man's door but appears to be distributed throughout a large, peaceful, and well-meaning society...