Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mythology which symbolizes tragic futility. That was Sisyphus, who, according to the Greek story, was given the task of rolling a great stone up to the top of a hill. Each time when, after great struggle and sweating, the stone was just at the brow of the hill, some evil force manifested itself and pushed the stone down. So poor Sisyphus had to start his task over again. I suspect that for the next 2,000 years the story of Sisyphus will be forgotten, when generation after generation is told the tragic story of the Austrian state treaty. We have...
Then John Foster Dulles looked squarely at the man he had labeled the instrument of an evil force and said: "I think that the Soviet Foreign Minister will understand that it is at least excusable if we think, and if much of the world will think, that what is actually under way here is another illustration of the unwillingness of the Soviet Union actually to restore genuine freedom and independence in any area where it has once gotten its grip...
...music his profession. He chose painting instead, simply "because it seemed to be lagging behind," and undertook rigorous formal training. Klee's chief means of advancing art was to let his unconscious whisper through his brush. At four, he would rush to his mother for protection from the "evil spirits" that appeared on his drawing paper. With age, he came to feel at home in his dream world of huge, dim forces, and was able to say, with none of the smugness of the dispassionate, that "evil must not be a triumphant or confounding enemy, but a constructive force...
...darling of millions,* and Disney himself more than ever the darling of the intellectuals. Harvard and Yale awarded him degrees. People called him "the poet of the new American Humanism," and drew Chaplinesque morals about Mickey as "the symbol of common humanity in its struggle against the forces of evil...
...their heavenly counterparts, the angels. It is seldom that you see a picture of a sickly-looking devil. Never is he feminine . . . Placing the artists' conception of a devil alongside their conception of an angel makes one wonder whether it is at all possible for good to overcome evil...