Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasoning about the universe, said Cosmologist Thomas Gold, "we must be on our guard against that evil intruder 'common sense.' " Common sense, Gold pointed out, is derived from human experience with objects of moderate size such as the human body and the solar system. Scientists now know that very small objects (i.e., subatomic particles) behave in a non-commonsensical way. Very large objects may behave unreasonably...
Better Than Ever. In Boston, Anthony Santangelo, 12, showed up after a four-day absence, explained to his frantic family that he had been to the movies, seen A Girl for Joe seven times, Living It Up three times, Garden of Evil four times, Gone with the Wind three times, Duel in the Sun seven times...
...remembers rather quizzically was the cover on Russia's former police boss, Lavrenty Beria (July 20, 1953) During his work on Beria, a rush order came from another magazine for a portrait of St. Paul. "It was," says Guy, "a matter of working alternate days on good and evil...
...Movements may be as formless as a shifting fog, as destructive as a stream of lava, as senseless as a panic-stricken mob, as regimented to evil ends as Naziism, as suicidal as the movements of the Gadarene swine. The ecumenical movement is a movement of free men all in one direction. It is a movement of churches toward their own center, a concentration of Christendom on Christ. Because we see through a glass darkly, because we get in each other's way a good deal, because we are sinners and because we are involved in the world...
...than $3,000,000, strengthened the quality of his faculty by appointing only Ph.D.s from first-class universities to professorships. "Education," says he, "must dispel the all too common notion that ideas and ideals do not count, that education is not concerned with what is good and what is evil, but is really only a matter of adjustment to environment. It is high time for all educators to question our values, not cynically, but to seek aid wherever we can find it-in the arts, in literature, in philosophy and in religion...