Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concern. "No evangelism to the masses will work today that seeks mostly escape. No evangelism can be wholesome that speaks in spiritual terms alone. Today the whole man need be saved and creatively fulfilled . . . When we Methodists become evangelical we shall have a social gospel that snail make entrenched evil tremble, rationalized selfishness seethe, organized greed rail, but shall make the peoples of the earth rise up to call us blessed...
With the British, especially, McCarthyism is an obsession-& delightful, self-flattering obsession that salves the bruised British ego with the balm of moral supertority to the upstart Americans. The more McCarthyism can be exaggerated in its evil or its power, the more it fascinates the British...
...early '30s, Prohibition monopolized public discussion in the U.S. and luridly colored the European view of American life. An overwhelming majority of the U.S. people came to recognize that Prohibition was a mistake-but before Repeal in 1933, the opponents of Prohibition had exaggerated its evil effects as widely as the most fanatic Drys had exaggerated the evils of drink...
...women of Germany who will find no husbands, whose husbands-to-be died all over the world . . . you are Germany's fairy godmothers. Only you can break the spell of evil magic. Only then will our people have a future, when it can again look upon virtuous and clean women...
...story is basically as simple-and as wildly and lavishly dressed-as a small boy's own imagination. The boy of the story hates piano lessons but is kept at his practicing by his well-meaning mother and his music teacher, an evil, oily character named Dr. Terwilliker. Falling asleep at the keyboard, the boy is transported in a Technicolored dream to a fantastic castle in which Dr. Terwilliker keeps a mile-long two-decker piano. At this preposterous musical instrument the teacher plots and schemes to trap 500 boys ("Think of it! Five thousand fingers!") who have been...