Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evil fates dance faster and faster above their heads, Kozol denies Wendy her lover because, the fellow observes carefully, "how can we leave our friends?" The Harvardman recognizes "there was some kind of vicious stupidity flooding through me, rising up like a sordid ugly mist to obscure the things that were golden" and their desire dies...
...cries of alarm from the professional hatchetmen were to be expected. "This evil man, bent on war, must be checked," shouted Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse, who was promptly countered by New York's Republican Congressman Kenneth Keating for giving "aid and comfort" to the Communist enemy. Massachusetts' John Kennedy, stumping for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, blamed Dulles for having been caught in Quemoy and Matsu, implying that the U.S. should somehow have found a way to slip the islands out from under the Nationalists on the sly. Notably, leading Democrats Harry Truman and Adlai...
Mindful of the U.S. Tariff Commission's recommendations for boosting tariffs, foreign nations regarded quotas as much the lesser evil. They were fully aware that U.S. mine production has fallen while imports have climbed (see chart). Canadian politicians railed at the ruling, but Canadian miners were more subdued. "It's easier to get rid of a quota than a tariff," said V. C. Wansbrough, vice president of the Canadian Metal Mining Association...
This vision helps to illustrate Author Kerouac's unhappy faculty for confusing freedom with irresponsibility, for abusing the Zen Buddhist idea of the inseparability of good and evil by using it as an excuse for self-indulgence. Kerouac's protest against the urban work life (which he once called "the midtown sillies world") and the suburban home life of the U.S. middle class ("all that dumb white machinery in the kitchen") is trenchant but scarce!" new. And Kerouac's cult of "spontaneous writing" makes his pages at least as sloppy as they are sprightly...
Such an enemy is elusive, however, and it is tempting to oversimplify its agencies, seeking a ground on which organized resistance is possible. Like Ahab, these idealists want to grapple with a symbolic embodiment of pervasive evil. They find in the idea of a Communist conspiracy a suitable devil, responsible for the sins of their no-longer Jeffersonian world. States' rights form a barrier against political manifestations of this insidious movement, and traditional values become weapons against social sabotage. Integration, upsetting custom, supported by left-wingers, and enforced by centralizied national power, seems an instrument of the alien interest...