Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pennsylvania-born ex-Y.M.C.A. leader was asked to leave the Princeton campus because his famous meetings at which young followers eagerly confessed their private sins seemed the wrong sort of spiritual exercise for growing boys. But Dr. Frank kept marching on, smilingly proclaiming panaceas for war, Communism and evil of all kinds. Leader Buchman, whose followers have described his divine guidance as a kind of telephone conversation with God, always managed to find bright and wealthy followers to help him "change" the fellows (in the U.S.) and the chaps (in England...
Finally, towering over a host of lesser archetypes, is the transcendent Self. This embodies elements from both conscious and unconscious, from all the archetypes, good and evil. It is a symbol of oneness such as is found in many religions, e.g., the Hindu atman...
West Berliners feel the collective guilt for Germany's past deeply, but at the same time show a sincere desire to rectify this in the eyes of the world. Rarely does and find a person who denies association with the Nazi evil, even though he himself had no part in it. This is not the case in Western Germany, where many will disclaim any knowledge of the concentration camps. As one Berlin girl said to me: "Why don't you hate us all for what we have done." Her family had been wiped out, all good party members...
...President Pusey has observed, "Television is, for good or evil, going to make more impact on human minds than any earlier means of communication. The question, therefore, is whether it will be used to good advantage or whether it is going to be just another way to feed in more inferior material for the diversion of restless minds." WGBH-TV should provide at least one effective answer
Essentially, Russell's Utopia is a strongly determinist Garden of Eden where knowledge is virtue and no one has enough free will to choose to do evil. Russell is not unaware of the serpents of danger in the world, but he offers to charm them with never-never tunes that have become more conventional than convincing: 1) world government; 2) world prosperity 3) worldwide birth control; 4) more individual initiative and decentralization of economic and political power...