Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, from every Catholic pulpin in Ireland, priests read a letter from Ireland's bishops warning of the "danger to faith and morals" that awaits Irish emigrants in England and of the "evil persons [who] are on the watch to meet them and to drag them down into the depths." This was enough to make any Irishman squirm, but there was worse to come. A pool of Irish missionaries would be sent to England, said the bishops, not to convert the English but to win back the Irish who have gone astray...
...giant lens of history has projected the battle of good and evil into the political form of a cold war. The battle for men's souls is being fought in public places. "Happiness can no longer be individual, like prayer," admitted Mauriac, and turned to his column...
...Enlightenment, with its faith in man's essential goodness, had been an age of hope: man freed from his chains was to progress irresistibly toward a better and better world. In the ruins left by World War II and all it taught of the evil in man, the Men of Reason became the Men of Despair. Cried Camus: "Confronted by Hitler's terror, what values did we have that could comfort us and which we could oppose to his negation? None. What was happening was coming from man himself. We could not deny it. We saw it confirmed...
...rounding up his fellow sufferers and taking them back to his peninsula. There, unnoticed by the islanders, they built crude shelters and lived on food that Aoki bought with his slim funds. His recruits at first spurned his religion, since by Okinawan tradition leprosy was considered an evidence of evil, on the part of either the sufferer or his ancestors. Aoki countered by reciting Christ's absolution of the blind man: "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him (John...
...electrocuted herself and was home in time for lunch." But a job selling roller skates at Macy's pays off. She meets and marries Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside, "the richest man under 40 south of Washington, D.C." She visits her husband's ancestral plantation, Peckerwood, meets his evil-tempered old mother, and trails a fox hunt in her hus band's Duesenberg. "I just hope I won't be sick when they kill that poor little fox," she confides to nephew Pat. Poor Auntie Mame has "never fully mastered the automobile." As the hounds come yelping...