Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indeed it is painful for me to have to write you a letter of such content," said Phillips, who feared that Yugoslavia might "slip back into the evil paths." He added, "This is none of my business ... I am only concerned with the human side of the administration, and I still hope that, in your relations with individuals, you can show to the world the basic superiority of a socialist social system...
...ordered two young men to submit first. They did so, though one said: "We don't care much about such diseases-we believe that they're a God-sent evil that we can never escape." The vaccinators used an instant preparation made from dried vaccine (conventional liquid vaccine spoils in the heat of Iran's outlying districts, where there is no refrigeration). Next came the women, breaking Moslem tradition by letting men other than their kinfolk touch them. The children yelled at the prick of the vaccinators, but a rearguard of tribesmen pushed them ahead. Band after...
...missioner to the heathen, clad in the righteous armor of the sole truth, his own. In this compact novel of grace and distinction, John (Hiroshima, The Wall) Hersey captures the essential pathos of such culture struggles, seeing them as encounters between two goods rather than between good and evil. In A Single Pebble, a story set against the backdrop of the China of three decades ago, the West's Promethean spirit of change collides with the East's age-old piety of tradition, and both lose...
...short: we must tighten the system. Trap the culprits. Let the student know that the proctor is watching over his shoulder, ready to pounce. Once the student realizes that there is no chance for evil, he will become much more relaxed. Obviously...
...stand-bys, good and evil, battle it out at the Brattle again, this time not in the usual French, but in Portuguese. Being Brazilian, Cangaceiro's bandit villains are a motley compound of both cowboy and Indian, which makes them, as usual, much more interesting than the somewhat insipid "good guys...