Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William Tuesday night told the Young Republicans to decide "whether McCarthy is an evil product of the Democrats or an asset of the G.O.P...
...fans would think their man a softie. The crowd, many of them from Willie's home town of Hartford, Conn., booed and jeered the champ, cracked that Willie had given far less than his all. New York Boxing Commissioner Robert Christenberry had no patience with such speculation: "Any evil talk is a slur on a once-great fighter who took the beating of his life. The result speaks for itself. This is the end of an era. You can't hold back youth." The boxing commission's doctor, Vincent Nardiello, wrote a finis to Willie...
...entire sweep of Western civilization. With none of the old, narrow surveys, students are required to take at least six broad general-education courses, distributed throughout the humanities and the social and natural sciences. This amounts to a study of giant themes-e.g., the ideas of good v. evil in Western literature, freedom and authority in the modern world, the principles of science. From the start, students read Homer, St. Augustine, Dante and Tolstoy, study the great laws of science and the experiments and logic that produced them. Later, the stage narrows down to the student's chosen...
...fashion able was the social kind. Rolling a pencil between his hands, Babbitt spoke of the "inner obeisance" that man must have "to something higher than his ordinary self." He despised the new ethics that was based entirely on the assumption that the only "significant struggle between good and evil is not in the individual but in society." In one sense, Irving Babbitt almost blasted Nathan Pusey's academic career. His broad humanism gave his pupil such a contempt for narrow scholarship that Nate told his classmates after graduation, "If you ever catch me around here again...
...must have symbols, Preacher is Evil. His mind is contorted into a fantastic kind of Calvinist logic: He has been sent to rid the world of greed and sensual pleasure; to do so he must have money. Travelling up and down the Ohio he accomplishes all by enticing middle-aged widows to marry him; just before the wedding he acquires their meager fortune. Then he kills them. But when he marries the mother of the two children in hopes of getting the stolen money, he happily fails...