Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vale denunciation of Stalin by Khrushchev. It is easy to see how this regurgitation of Stalin, coupled with the current more reasonable sounding party line, will cause unthinking souls to warm to this new face so expertly put on by men who would have us forget that Communism is evil, whether armed or unarmed, frowning or smiling...
...Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong,'-this shall lead me to the last. It is my confirmation verse . . . There are evil people everywhere, but also many good people. Do you know, I have often thought of our conversations in which you sought to encourage me to gather more spiritual than earthly goods. How right you were! Where have all earthly treasures gone? Vanished like a cloud of vapor . . . I do not fear death. I fear it only as it affects you and our beloved sweet children...
...their forewords, Roman Catholic George N. Shuster calls the book "a sort of hymn," and Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr says: "It is ... one of the most rewarding ironies of history that only a very great evil can prompt such martyrdom as these pages . . . illumine . . . While there is a problem for the German nation about the guilt of having allowed the Nazi tyranny to come to power among them, it is fortunately true that the German people were also responsible for the lives and deeds of heroism and martyrdom in which the horrible evil was resisted...
...spotted rat, as big as a rabbit, and he is stalked through the sewers of a French provincial town by the health board and its ratcatchers as assiduously as Melville's Ahab hunted the great white whale. Like Moby Dick, the great black rat is a symbol of evil and of an ambiguous enveloping doom far beyond the petty retribution of its death...
...fuming with impotent rage as an evil-mannered thug criticizes our carefully polished Army boots during drill...