Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than a single explanation. One can interpret non-violent resistance, whether in South Africa, India, or America, in terms of realpolitik; when the other side has all the guns, it is convenient and wise to be non-violent. Or there is a moral explanation: the resisters regard violence as evil, under all circumstances. They feel that the dignity of man must be maintained even, or perhaps especially, in protest movements. And one can note that religion is a more active salient influence in the life of the Negro than of the white, and the southern Negro church is a more...
Essentially, Sahl is an exceedingly safe comedian. He merely articulates what thousands of Americans (correctly or incorrectly) have thought before him (to wit: 1. Nixon is an evil man. 2. Kennedy is ambitious, but not as evil as Nixon. 3. The President of the United States, alas, is a fool.). His well-known remark "Are there any minority groups I haven't offended?" is cute but deceptive, for he's careful only to offend the minority groups which one can get away with offending. His entire viewpoint resembles, in fact, that of a slightly eccentric but avid supporter of Adlai...
...School wall. Mirsky's prose is full of fire and yet maintains a reserved dignity. Only once does the writing seem to go out of control, for I don't understand the important passage explaining the rabbi's cry of "Shkootzim, shkootzim" at the children who had perpetrated the evil deed...
...Labeling Jack Kennedy a "political chameleon," the militant, outsized (membership: 23,000) Warehousemen's Union issued a call for the support of Richard Nixon, "the lesser evil...
...story of Adolf Hitler and his works is curiously resistant to the historian's approach. Such massive evil can scarcely be conveyed by facts, figures and chronology. What is needed is another Dante with a genius for portraying hell, or a new Wagner who can translate horror into myth and spell out the dread meanings in a Götterdämmerung finale. Surrealist imagination, not research, may one day tell the definitive story; in the meantime, there are books...