Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appreciation of the beautifully written review of my book, Tale of a Whistling Shrimp [Nov. 4]. Alas, my home-town paper, commentating on the book, says, "It's hard to laugh at the Reds." Goodness-are we going Sputnik-silly? Most certainly we should laugh at this evil dictatorship. Laughter is one of democracy's strongest weapons...
...everyone shouts at him, his termagant wife loudest of all. Only Satan takes pity and whispers to Gimpel that he could be avenged on the world by deceiving it in turn. Gimpel tries, but it is not in him: he is too much the fool even to be evil. The worldly-wise (including the reader) are sharply reproached by Gimpel's foolishness and yet they are also apt to envy it, for it is illuminated by the saintly simpleton's strange, special kind of dignity. Unpretentiously, almost crudely sketched, Gimpel is an unforgettable character, deeply moving...
...foreheads. There is Alexander, the perennial student, pompously lecturing the girls on the Hellenic past, and Madame Edlinsky. who likes Jews yet loves an anti-Semite. And there is the wide-horizoned land itself: "We knew without thinking that it was a great, rich country, and a great people. Evil was organized and directed, but the good sprang from the heart and mind of man, and ran like a river between its natural banks. The word 'duty' was slight, but 'conscience' was laden with meaning...
...deny, the Pope continued, that there is such a thing as fashion that is "shameless, which causes perturbation in ordered spirits and may be an incentive to evil." Such fashions are bad, however esthetic they may be. Man "quickly notices hidden shamelessness and seduction . . . Although creators of impudent fashions are skillful in contrabanding perversion by mixing it with esthetic elements which are honest in themselves, human sensuality is unfortunately even cleverer in discovering it and in being readily fascinated by it." And even though the cut be modest, the cloth "may be guilty of excessive luxury, which is an offense...
...Moroccan welfare agencies, and fountainhead of Morocco's drive against illiteracy. Says Aisha: "This position lets me touch the lowest levels of society-the fellahin, widows and orphans alike. I work here not just to supervise, but to participate in the lives of the people. By touching evil at close quarters, I can learn how to cure...