Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Secretary in any new Labor government, laid down his views at a preconference rally. Bevan had just come back from a tour in which he met face to face with Khrushchev, Zhukov, Gomulka and other Soviet-bloc leaders. Nye seemed to have seen much good, observed little evil, and gained no wisdom...
Over the intricate rhythms of drums hovered the fluid notes of a single bamboo flute and the wailng chant of a solo male voice. Against a plain black backdrop swirled brilliantly costumed dancers, unfolding exotic tales of lust and vengeance, ecstasy and evil. The occasion: the Broadway opening, prior to a U.S. tour, of the Indian dance group headed by Shanta Rao (rhymes with...
...dancer should be able to run through the whole gamut of emotions with the wordless movements of her body. "If I say 'I love you,' I should be able to show it in different ways if you are a girl or a god. If I am evil, I want you to feel like killing me." But when asked by eager Westerners about the "spirituality" of Indian dancing, Shanta Rao replies, her well-trained eyes twinkling: "I am bereft of spirituality. I only know work and sweat...
...bushy-haired, boyish-looking newsman stood up and spoke unpalatable truths. Said he: "We cannot turn our backs upon injustice simply because a black man is its victim. Nor can we find a safe retreat in the sort of legalistic buck-passing that recognizes the existence of an evil but insists it is somebody else's responsibility...
...editor on the Charlotte News in North Carolina, Newsman Ashmore reached the firm conclusion that by continued failure to meet "the basic commitments of citizenship" in its worsening relations with the Negro, the white South could only invite what Ashmore regards as the equal evil of enforced integration. He has pushed that premise in two books, The Negro and the Schools (1954) and his upcoming An Epitaph for Dixie, and in Democratic party politics, which he entered as civil-rights adviser to Adlai Stevenson in 1956. ("How many Democratic editors were there available?" he asks...