Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that he is the anti-integration straw boss for one of the nation's oldest, most powerful and in many ways most sophisticated political machines, led by Harry Byrd, a symbol of Southern leadership with the capacity and influence for achieving the greatest good-or the greatest evil...
...more one is in danger of falling. "The Jews sinned in this matter worse than the Pagans not because they were further from God but because they were nearer to Him. For the Supernatural, entering a human soul, opens to it new possibilities both of good and evil. From that point the road branches: one way to sanctity, love, humility, the other to spiritual pride, self-righteousness, persecuting zeal ... If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst." Finally, says Lewis, the violently...
...make the most of Farrell's opulent voice and to minimize the defects of acting and appearance that have limited her career almost entirely to the concert hall. Stage business was reduced to a minimum. But if Soprano Farrell failed visually to convey the briny sense of evil that Callas brings to the role, she demonstrated again that hers is perhaps the finest dramatic-soprano voice in the land. Perfectly responsive to the opera's somber emotional inflections, her voice could sink effortlessly to a haunted, house-filling pianissimo or soar in gorgeously shifting gradations to cleave through...
...books of short stones and a novel, The Lying Days (TIME, Oct. 12, 1953), she had already revealed so much of white hypocrisy and black frustration that her work might have seemed finished. Now, at 34, she proves in an excellent new novel that the faces of evil and arrogance have an endless variety of expressions for one who can bear to look at them...
...left-wing daily Combat (circ. 58,000) complains that Staff Cartoonist Jean Pinatel's banana-nosed version of Premier Charles de Gaulle is a clear case of proboscis profaned. Last week Pinatel snapped back at his critics. Beside an amiable, big-nosed De Gaulle, Pinatel drew an evil-eyed, small-nosed De Gaulle, then offered his defense...