Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru knows by now that the West disapproves, and voices within his own country challenge his see-no-Russian-evil attitude. Because he has sought to place himself in a position of world moral leadership, Nehru must, if given the chance, return to more tenable assessments of the Russians and their aggressions...
...such harder tasks as countering the terrific fourth-act drop in pressure, or achieving truly tragic stature for Macbeth, the production failed. Paul Rogers' Macbeth was a heroic enough figure of evil, and at moments a man of intense, Hamlet-like imagination. But the difference between the two men that Saintsbury noted-that Macbeth can never leave off whereas Hamlet can never begin, so that Macbeth is increasingly ruthless and consistently unremorseful-is what makes Macbeth not easily tragic. Rogers could not convey what might make him so: an awful sense of alienation, of that
Undershaft's moral value does not stop with his offering one of the most trenchant of all indictments of poverty. It lies also in his demonstrating the folly of all absolute positions, in his showing how good and evil must always jostle and even beget one another. But Shaw, with his new non-reformer's zeal, turns extremist...
...words "sex" or "perversion" or "degenerate" would have seemed adequate to explain why two rich, intellectual boys should make a game of murder. Levin is not content with this explanation. He points out that Friedrich Nietzsche had introduced them to the idea of the superman, "beyond good and evil." A really superior man, they reasoned-in one of those gloomy blunders which snarl up the scribbled notebook of adolescence-could put himself above and beyond society by the successful commission of a pointless crime. They burned sheds, robbed fraternity houses, cheated at cards; and their IQs were among the highest...
...Carey Daniel, pastor of West Dallas' First Baptist Church and brother of Texas' Democratic Senator (and candidate for governor) Price Daniel, offered to turn his church buildings into an all-white school if integration should be forced upon Dallas' public schools. "While correcting the evil of integration," said Pastor Daniel, "we also plan to correct several other evils." Items in the proposed curriculum: condemnation of the United Nations and "oneworld ideology," presentation of evolution "as a damnable heresy and not as scientific fact...