Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least of the evils of dictatorship is the hostility which it frequently manifests toward academic freedom. The new Fascist oath, by which Italian professors are compelled to swear loyalty to the existing regime and all its works, is a pertinent instance of that evil. The action of the Harvard professors who have requested the League of Nations to intervene in the case, is a well-timed protest against an act of tyranny...
French Professor Lewis Piaget-Shanks has translated Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil (Fleurs du Mai); a Major Felten has illustrated the book in 16 modernistic black-&-whites (Ives Washburn...
...blow his final defeat was not attributable to the sinfulness of the act, but rather to his lack of fortitude in self-justification. Dostoevsky was not irreligious. At bottom he had a primitive kind of Christianity, which thought man became great through suffering. Furthermore, since man was naturally evil and irrational, there was all the more reason he should find refuge in the perfectness...
What is the significance of such a state of affairs? The over-zealous moralist will imply with gusto that the public has a genuine esteem for the perpetration of evil, and that the country is at last on its way to perdition. Such a conclusion must be rejected; the prominence given to the fabulous annals of crime admits of a more significant explanation...
Notorious malefactors do not command the attention of the American public because they have done evil, but because they represent values that catch the popular enthusiasm. Wealth has unquestionably been the reward of many such men; and wealth, whether in a Rockefeller, a Ford, or a Capone has gained the respect of the American public. The king pins of the underworld represent other achievements; and when their success is the result of "high-power organization," with a chief in Florida able to execute his will in Chicago, he wins the unthinking approval of the American public as does the broker...