Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...applause of his listeners. Main reason for his refraining from his customary theatricality: white-maned Conductor Stokowski, 73, also renowned as the estranged husband of Actress-Painter-Poetess Millionheiress Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska, 31, had banned all pictures of the concert, was unaware that a camera had fixed its evil eye upon...
...Greatest Evil. As the Quaker delegation fulfilled its concern for peace by its presence in Russia, the American Friends Service Committee issued a pamphlet, prepared by a committee of 13 Quakers (three of whom are on the trip), that clearly delineates the joint concern-of the American Quaker community. The booklet, Speak Truth to Power, is the fourth of a Quaker series on methods to ease tension, but its stand on pacifism is more radical than any of its predecessors...
...world's greatest evil, says the booklet, is not Communism but violence. "The basic reason for our failure lies in the nature of our present commitment to violence . . . It is now impossible for a great nation to commit itself both to military preparedness and to carrying forward a constructive and positive program of peacemaking...
Personal Commitment. "Without overlooking the evils of Communism, we must still reject the devil theory in history . . . We think the basic assumption of many of our fellow Americans as to the location of evil is wrong . . . Man's curse lies in his worship of the work of his hands, in his glorification of material things . . . It is not an idolatry of which the Communists alone are guilty. We believe the real choice lies between continuing to deal with international problems on the old basis of military power and attempting to deal with them on the new and revolutionary basis...
...bothered to give it a title, but the subject was clearly Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (see cut). Scores of old masters have given the scene more spiritual impact, yet few have conceived it any more compactly and dramatically than Burra has. As always with Burra, evil ruled the conception. But this time the evil was not the housebroken monster of a man fascinated by undigested fears. Burra's Gethsemane faced the onrushing moment of one of history's greatest-though necessary-evils from a very great distance, and showed it plain...