Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Everest prominently labeled "Nepal." Meanwhile, half a world away. King Mahendra earnestly told a joint session of Congress: "Our policy of nonalignment does not arise from our desire to sit on the fence . . . We shall certainly not be neutral when we are confronted with a choice between good and evil, or right and wrong...
...novel for nice young ladies, published in 1913, by a refined New England novelist named Eleanor H. Porter, was an irresistible tearjerker that drenched the pillows of grandma's generation and added to the language a new word for the sort of softheaded optimist who can see no evil, especially in the mirror, and who hysterically insists on confusing goo with good. The story distilled Victorian sentiment to its treacly essence, and readers of all ages lapped it up. More than a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, and by 1920 the book had been made into a Broadway...
...Tenth Man. The girl is obviously psychotic, but Playwright Paddy Chayevsky-in a strikingly original play set in a Long Island synagogue-suggests that she might be possessed by a dybbuk, an evil spirit that has all but vanished from currency in the age of Freud...
AGRICULTURE : "There is . . . a positive evil in these [soil-bank and acreage-retirement] programs: in effect, they reward people for not producing. For a nation that is expressing great concern over its 'economic growth,' I cannot conceive of a more absurd and self-defeating policy than one which subsidizes non-production." Goldwater's solution: "Prompt and final termination of the farm subsidy program...
...crown is an iridescent fountain of bubbling jewels. Diamonds spill and shimmer like droplets of moonlight. At its pinnacle, a huge, rough-cut ruby stares like an evil red eye. The diamond crown of Peter the Great is one of 80-odd superb photographic still lifes of the Kremlin's quasi-barbaric, Byzantine splendors, caught with eloquent precision by David Douglas Duncan's camera. This glittering hoard-jeweled scepters and prayer books, imperial gowns and priestly vestments, carriages and thrones-was buried art treasure until Duncan wangled Khrushchev's permission in 1956 to roam the Kremlin...