Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazing it is, Mr. President," Dirksen continued, "that when a man lies in pain in a hospital, to send him a message at once so cynical and so brutal. Where are the common charities, after all, Mr. President? How bad must be the evil acids eating at the soul if finally they stir in such a way our passions and our tempers . . . Mr. President, there is fever and there is pain. The least we could do in an effort to be charitable would be to recess the Senate, in consonance with the suggestions made by eminent medical authority. When Senator...
...recording his joys and sorrows, his struggle for existence, his encounters, good and evil, man has used words, music, paint, stone, steel, film. The U.S. Bureau of the Census uses numbers. Last week it issued its 75th Anniversary edition of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, a volume which embraces the raw material of American drama. Some ore from this 1,056-page mine...
...counsels "personal adjustment." But adjustment to what? New Testament Christianity is hardly adjusted to its environment. It makes us seriously wonder, in fact, how much the social order is worth adjusting to. The gospel urges us to nonconformity: "Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed." An evil aspect of peace-of-mind religion is its acceptance, by default, of the social status quo. But its greatest sin lies in using God as a means for human ends. This is blasphemous. A rhapsodic inquiry greets us from the TV screen and the radio: "Have you talked...
Frodo at Fifty. Author Tolkien is the more disciplined storyteller, and The Fellowship of the Ring is the more appealing book. Actually, it is only the first third of a massive, three-volume cycle. The novel centers on a plain gold ring, magic but evil. The power of the ring varies. A simple soul can slip it on and make himself invisible, but a tyrant can slip it on and rule the world. In The Fellowship of the Ring, which takes place in the "Third Age of Middle Earth," the drama springs from the fact that a simple soul...
...roles of the only straightforward characters, Robert Beatey and Beverly Butte make goodness almost as appealing as evil. Beatey plays Lord Teazle and, with Miss Scott as his wife, he has no luck in arousing sympathy in the audience, another sorry stroke against Sheridan...