Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their devotion to neutrality, the canny, conservative men who govern Switzerland frequently carry noninvolvement in international politics to a point where the mountains seem to echo to the cry of hear no evil and see no evil. But the events in Hungary have stirred the Swiss like nothing has in years. Last week, casting traditional impartiality to the winds, Foreign Minister Max Petitpierre told the Swiss Parliament that in Hungary "we have witnessed and are witnessing the cold enslavement, through armed force, arrests and deportations, of a nation whose only crime is to strive for independence. There...
...interpret King Nebuchadnezzar's dream), 290 by man to God, e.g., "O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise" (Psalms 51:15). Twenty-eight promises were made by angels, one by man to an angel, and two were made by an evil spirit to the Lord. Satan made nine, as when he promised the world to Christ "if thou wilt fall down and worship me" (to which Christ answered: "Get thee hence, Satan"). Grand total of promises...
...solution to the problem, Kerr invites both artsakists and sinsniffers to meet on St.Thomas Aquinas' conception of integrity in art, which Kerr interprets as a wholeness and honesty in relation to life that makes a book or play or picture moral in the highest sense, no matter what evil it may depict. In that sense, nothing truly beautiful could ever be called bad, nothing bad could ever be called beautiful. Esthetics and ethics would be the same. But that, Kerr admits, could probably come to pass only in an ideal world...
...QUIET AMERICAN, by Graham Greene. Novelist Greene's expedition to wartime Indo-China, showing him as skillful as ever at playing fictional charades with good and evil. His U.S. idealist, born out of Greene's pathological anti-Americanism, comes off only a little worse than his morally bankrupt Englishman, but the book's importance lies in the fact that many Europeans share Greene's phobia...
...rising star of Communism rather than the slow path of religion . . . What would be Buddha's reaction to modern problems? . . . He spoke of salvation through the conquest of Dukha [poverty], really meaning the abolition of poverty. This happy state could be achieved by the personal conquest of evil. Here lies the difference between Communism and Buddhism. While one conquers with fear, the other conquers with love...