Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles says: "Soviet Communism starts with an atheistic, Godless premise. Everything else flows from that." Communism explicitly denies an objective moral law as that is understood in the Jewish, Christian and Moslem religions. Dulles is convinced that the evil of Communism flows from this denial, and that the struggle against Communism will be lost if it is considered merely a contest between rival power blocs...
...Religion of the Future." "The new religion," Eliot predicted, "will foster powerfully a virtue which is comparatively new in the world -the love of truth and the passion for seeking it. And the truth will progressively make men free . . . When dwellers in a slum suffer the familiar evils caused by overcrowding, impure food and cheerless labor, the modern true believers contend against the sources of such misery by providing public baths, playgrounds, wider and cleaner streets, better dwellings and more effective schools-that is, they attack the sources of physical and moral evil...
...dealing with Negroes when that issue is handled by a Southern member of the Review. To state categorically that the eligible concerned is too suspect to run the risk of realization of the harm anticipated, to connote that membership in the Review carries with it such terrible power for evil, is to circumvent the issues and to condone an act that is in itself reprehensible as a manifestation of an autocratic power...
...epicurean Roman grudgingly won over to evangelical Christianity, highborn Burton is the successful rival of Prince Regent Caligula (Jay Robinson) for the hand of Jean Simmons, a ward of the Emperor Tiberius. When he further annoys the evil Caligula by outbidding him for a particularly stiff-necked Greek slave (Victor Mature), Burton is exiled to Palestine, where he lolls decadently in the baths and drinks wine while his slave Mature becomes a convert to the new religion...
...short moment, the two great men of letters stood in alliance. But the breach came soon after Chekhov returned from his Siberian tour, horrified by what he had seen. "How," he asked, "did Tolstoy's theory of nonresistance to evil stand up . . .? Did the convicts' nonresistance to flogging or forced labor or blackmail or prostitution transform them or those who were responsible for them into better men? . . . On the contrary, it turned them into bigger brutes." Soon Chekhov was warring with every Tolstoyan tenet, particularly the idea that "Christian love was incompatible with sexual love." And just...