Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take-cast a dark cloud over the annual Boston Police Ball until Richard Cardinal Gushing, 66, dropped around with an evening-saving message. "In my theology," proclaimed Boston's homegrown Roman Catholic archbishop, "gambling in itself is not a sin . . . It's the abuse that makes gambling evil. We all have our faults. But why hang them, as it were, like dirty linen on a clothesline from one end of the country to the other? Someone betrayed us . . ." But, though it earned lusty cheers from the ballgoers at the Boston Garden, Cardinal Cushing's apologia...
Memos & Mice. As might be expected, hardly anyone agreed with anyone else. Columnist Walter Lippmann found the 'shakeup "heartening evidence of the President's uncommon ability to learn from experience." But to David Lawrence it was "a tragic example of experimentation, lack of system, and the evil effect of partisan politics on the efficient conduct of government." Positioning himself in the cautious middle, Columnist Marquis Childs wrote that the State Department is "an overblown machine that carries into the jet age much of the apparatus of the horse-and-buggy era ... Whether it is resolved by the changes...
...America, a fairer America, a less commercial America, would be in much the same international plight. And it seems to me that the greedy desire of a shelter owner to keep out the people who have not been able to build their own refuges is a different kind of evil from that which prompts men to push missile buttons...
...more than absurd, they are bestial and very evil. The crucial incident of the first chapter (Snow's novels abound in crucial incidents) is not a hasty or disastrous slip of the tongue, as it is the gruesome death of a young assistant keeper who is crushed to death by a diseased giraffe. For the Zoo's leaders, however, death has only a Snowbound political significance: Falcon, the Curator of Mammals, is directly responsible for the killing, but Leacock, the Director, decides not to mention the incident to him because in his own campaign for a "National Zoological Reserve...
...Year is chosen on a basis of "one who has done more to alter the world for either good or evil," the man for '61 has got to be "Mr. K." or a composite of all those who fled East Germany. These two nominees have done more to alter the picture of the world than anyone else...