Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheer unadorned, twisted, dirty reporting, this article deserves a high place in the roster of dishonorable journalism. You have corrupted every statistic you use, finding evil in the titanic effort made by the people of New York to create a better city...
...hooks up. Brother George was long ago spliced to Mercedes McCambridge, a twisted, Bible-quoting shrike, but their platonic trailer-camp marriage is as punishing as purgatory. So those "illustrated sermons," in which Salome dances (not as her Biblical namesake but as Delilah of the "soft, yielding flesh and evil painted face"), give Preacher Hamilton the torments. Finally, Sister Mercedes, who cannot help noticing, has a conniption...
...insidious effect of an uncritical press--a notable current example was the Boston Daily Record--which prints allegations as fact, or alternatively attempts to stay away from controversy by labelling him as "the controversial folk singer." As the University so ably demonstrated three weeks ago, "controversial" has become an evil word in America. It has become a facile way of saying, "Some powerful people say he's a Communist and I haven't got the guts to say otherwise...
...actual judging was a battle between the forces of evil--represented by the Poonies and myself, who were having mild hysterics--and the force of good--represented by the Miss America man, Marlen L. Slaven, an old hand at this sort of thing and a stickler for orderly procedure. Later Mr. Slaven was able to provide expert advice to the promoter...
...phrase goes, put away childish things; and among these childish things the first to go, in my opinion, should be self-idealization and the search for absolutes in world affairs: for absolute security, absolute amity, absolute harmony. Let us not repeat the mistake of believing that either good or evil is total. No other people, as a whole, is entirely our enemy. No people at all-not even ourselves-is entirely our friend...