Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drenched bwana, "are growing uneasy." Then one of them catches it right in the back-a poisoned dart from a blowgun. He's a goner, of course, as soon as the stuff hits his bloodstream. More nervous mumbling from the natives ("They say this is a bad omen"). Evil forces are clearly trying to prevent Cornel Wilde from rediscovering the uranium mine found by his late brother, poor devil, who was murdered by a steel-clawed Leopard Man. Also barring his way, on his Technicolor plunge into spine-tingling British East Africa, are a process-shot wild elephant, some...
...years ... In reviewing our past, my wife and I share an acute consciousness of failure in not living up to the lofty ideals instilled in us by our mothers ... It was their constant and cherished expectation that we 'return thanks to the state by delivering our people from evil and suffering' . . . The double challenge of the mainland remaining unrecovered and our people therein crying out in vain for deliverance aggravates our sense of regret . . . My wife and I dedicate ourselves once more to the supreme task to which we are called and thus strive to be not unworthy...
...business and himself. Author Swiggett understands the paternalistic embrace in which the large, modern corporation holds its employees-but he vastly exaggerates it. His notion that the corporation makes or unmakes the man is on a par with all the determinist devil theories of history which hold that every evil of human life flows from the capitalistic "system," or from the machine, or from sunspots...
...Grades in courses are a necessary evil, but for the exceptionally qualified student they might not be necessary"--Kenneth B. Murdock '16, chairman of the Committee on General Education...
...John is similarly arraigned by fate when a homosexual classmate slips into his bed. Instead of being totally pliant or totally repelled, John's mixed reactions create a hysteric scene. But it takes a country vacation with Victoria Blount and her mother to bring into the open an evil that has been only hinted at. John Blaydon, though innocent, becomes notorious in all England. John's parents-his father is a vicar- hope that the scandal will vanish if they ignore it. He is sent to a different school. His name is changed. But to those who know...