Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director of the local office of the Indian Protection Service. In civilized clothes he did not look unusual except for a hole punched in his lower lip. This, Koi explained, was for a 2-in. tusk that Xetá males wear in the jungle to frighten off enemies and evil spirits...
...have no known gods, but they fear and venerate the jaguar and live in a world infested with evil spirits. Some of these can be bested in rather crude ways. An agent of the Indian Protection Service saw two Xetá women taking turns stamping on the head of a prostrate male. They explained that they were driving out a spirit that was the cause of a headache. After about 20 minutes of this treatment, the patient got up feeling fine...
...Major Salim Alfakhri, Iraq's director of broadcasting, went on Iraqi TV to display sporting guns, pistols, knives and brass knuckles that, he said, were to have been used in the plot. Communist-line Baghdad newspapers quickly labeled U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree "a messenger of evil," and preposterously linked his prospective visit with the plot...
...encompassing as to be transparent, and the New York theatre crowd was jolted out of its sophistication. Milling at the intermission, filing through doors, Manhattan secretaries with their tweedy, nebulous fiances, asthmatic maiden aunts from New York, students and old gentlemen and matron dowagers were discussing innocence and evil and faith and love and what is guilt with a passion admirable in a college freshman...
...task of men of letters, as he sees it, is to heed "the living voice of life," to bear witness to the good, the true and the beautiful. By example, Pasternak calls on writers to return to the universal themes of life and death, man and God, good and evil, and the joys, sorrows and splendors of love...