Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast. In listening to yesterday's delicate performance, the acute and profound commentary of Leonard Bernstein came to mind: "This 'little' work is actually one of the greatest musical portrayals of the nobility of man, his struggle for freedom, and his indomitable Faith in the forces of good over evil...
Naked Pink Lady. To this day, Sikkim's mountain climbers lift one flap on their fur caps, the better to hear the devils that always go uphill, never down. Lamas stage skeleton dances to drive away evil spirits. The country has no newspapers, and mail goes by pony express. There are no lawyers, because the government thinks that lawyers stir up more trouble than they are worth. A magistrate hears both sides of an argument, makes his judgment. Crime is so rare that there are never more than 15 prisoners in jail...
Watch Against Evil. Ironically, it is the dewan sent in from India who leads the battle against "evil outside influences." The present dewan, buoyant N. K. Rustomji, spent 18 years in Britain, but has become so attached to his work that he walks around Sikkimese style in a gleaming, embroidered bakkhu with a Great Dane said by the Sikkimese to be a reincarnation of Albert Einstein. The dewan considers his main task to be "the Sikkimization" of Sikkim-the attempt to preserve Sikkim's culture and identity from too much Tibetan or Chinese influence. The Indians are also pushing...
Whitman currently teaches Greek A, and two Greek literature courses. Alfred heads Humanities 3, "Crisis and the Individual," and lectures in Early English Literature. He has written a play, "Hogan's Goal," on the problems of evil, and man's essential aloneness...
...filibuster, though it has in recent times assumed the cast of evil, is a respectable safeguard against the vagaries of democracy. Instead of allowing its elimination by a small group of Senators, it would seem far wiser to establish the two-thirds-of-those-present rule as the necessary number to limit debate. Such a compromise will permit the passage of needed civil rights measures without sabotaging a truly useful protection of minority rights...