Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that face lifting and similar plastic surgery is wrong, appealed to Jesuit Father Virginio Rotondi for a ruling. Rotondi, a priest reputed to enjoy the Pope's special confidence (he divulged the Pope's vision of Christ two years ago), replied that plastic surgery is good or evil, or neither, according to the purpose for which it is performed. The surgeon himself is usually justified. His unobjectionable purpose is to earn a living and remedy ugliness. And the patient-unless his motive is actually evil, like that of a criminal trying to alter his features to escape...
...slew the lovers, or had them slain. Later, convinced that the second child was not his, he shook the cradle so ferociously that the infant could not catch her breath and suffocated. Thereupon Gesualdo settled into a life of remorse and debauchery-he was so beset by evil "demons" that he had himself whipped daily-out of which came some of the world's most remarkable music...
Died. Lloyd Tilghman Binford, 89, crotchety, Crump-backed chairman (1928-56) of the Memphis board of censors, who peered through his pince-nez, peevishly banned films because of: too much sex ("There's a little evil in every one of us"), Negroes in flattering roles, Ingrid Bergman or Charlie Chaplin (he did not approve of their private lives), who retired last January; after long illness; in Memphis...
...story, but only its expertise on herpetology, lycanthropy and the flora and fauna of the Congo raises it above popular adventure fiction. The reader would do well to ignore the author's declaration that "this is the story of the struggle of a man against the forces of evil which drive him, and those of good which inspire him; of a God-woman concept . . ." Not so. It is just a fairly engrossing tropical triangle...
...Russia." Yet Herzen had the realism to understand, 75 years before Stalin, that an inefficient despotism is preferable to an efficient one. With a visionary eye he looked across the steppes of history and foresaw that the witless crudity of the Czar's bureaucrats might be less evil than a regime speaking in the name of brotherly love. Herzen's shrewd mind took the slogans of Europe's libertarian movement and arrived at the wisdom of the American Negro spiritual-"Everybody talkin' 'bout heaven-ain't goin' there...