Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Taylor, he was not at home. It was not until a few nights later that she finally caught up with him. By that time, Taylor had calmed down, even agreed to sign a statement absolving her of any evil intention. With the document in hand, she felt sure that the incident was closed...
...fear of a threat to his personal security is at the root of every person's violence and hatreds. Evil is merely a sickness-a psychic distortion. Education has to be revamped so as to cope with a student's basic psychic problems, and not merely teach him trigonometry or Latin. These problems begin early and if caught in time can be corrected-but not after they explode in violence. Then it is too late. Evil matured is hard to cure...
...main evil of the age? Says Bachelor Williams: "Overpopulation. I don't understand why nothing is done to stop this spawning of children in families that can't even afford to have one. It is a crime-an awful crime...
Color is the villain, but here its evil agent is not oppression by the whites (they are only gently oppressive, and sometimes bumblingly kind), but the hard, protective shell of ignorance secreted by the blacks. The novel's story is of a family festering in such a shell, built of fear and blind religiosity. Don't ask questions, Cille's mother repeats, walling in her children. Don't think; thank...
...Mardou and their ambisextrous and hipsterical pals, the road to fulfillment leads through drink, drugs, jazz. Depending on the point of view, these are seen as evil escape mechanisms to evade reality, or accepted as strange techniques for intensifying reality. Primed with tea (marijuana) or benny (Benzedrine), the "kicks" of ecstasy become the "flips" of madness. Virtually all the characters in The Subterraneans flip. But Author Kerouac has known beat characters to do a reverse flip: "The hero of On the Road is now a normal settled-down adult. He's a railroad conductor with three kids...