Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same careful intelligence pervades his views on labor questions, especially the Taft-Hartley Law. Rather than ascribe all good or all evil to T.H. Stevenson has admitted its complexity and handled it gingerly. Although he favors substitution of a bill that will not reward strikebreakers with a vote or permit an employer to keep workers on the same pay eighty days more than they wish, he has said openly that some of the Law's provisions are salutary...
...Legong, in which she dances in an intricate trio for about five minutes, suddenly breaks off (at home in Bali, this part of the dance might last an hour), trots offstage like any twelve-year-old, and returns with a pair of golden wings to portray the Bird of Evil Omen...
...brief essay appended to The Loved and the Unloved, replies in a voice of deep humility: "Though, quite often, Grace does 'break in' [to his books], it has tended to do so less and less as I have grown older ... I might point out that evil is a reality in this world of ours, that the people I set out to paint are fallen creatures . . . that no artist should force his talent, and that mine does not easily breathe the air of sublimity...
...self-love too, it if is fierce and humble, exacting and resigned . . . as full of awe as love for other creatures should be. He who does not love himself does not love well; and he who does not hate himself, does not hate well; and hatred of evil is as necessary as love if the world is not to come to a standstill...
...these. She starts, as a young girl, by burning down her home (with her mother and father in it), and ends up owning a whorehouse dedicated to the more violent perversions, abandoning a husband and a brace of twins along the way. Never having met so fiercely evil a person, the reader will have to rely on the author's word, and that at times is insufficient...