Word: evils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Supernatural Imagination. This prelude was in the style of a Wagnerian soliloquy. The next evil undoer of righteous Germany to be taken up was Bolshevism, by which, roared Siegfried Hitler, "the world of supernatural imagination is torn apart, a God is dethroned, Religion and Church are rooted out-thus laying waste the world beyond. . . . Imperial and kingly domains fall and eradicate themselves-even from memory! . . . Democracies are relinquished. . . . Terrors of unemployment . . . terrors of hunger. . . . Astounded peoples see that the God of War has not abandoned His armament but, on the contrary, strides over the earth more heavily armed than ever...
...constant emphasis upon personal experience at the expense of any wider reference. 'Why have you not seen the importance of a religion that reaches out into all life and all relationships?' he asked. Continuing, he declared with deep feeling, 'If you are going to compromise with evil conditions while you stress personal religion exclusively, I tell you now I am not with...
...mastership. But millions followed them, thinking, to bring peace through war, temperance through legislation, employment through high wages, morality through censorship, and Americanism through oaths, for teachers. In spite of all the kow-towing, buttering, and boot-licking to abhorrent ends, the balance weighed overwhelmingly with Evil, and that, though not all to a perfectionist, mattered most...
...suppressed for three crucial days-in short, if Germany had not taken too long a gambling chance for the sake of bluffing her opponents, peace might have been preserved. Author Wolff absolves plain Europeans of all nationalities (except the Serbs) from a desire for war, says: "The bringers of evil were folly, arrogance, stupidity, and the gambler's mania. The fates were not Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, daughters of Zeus. They were a select company whose names stood at the foot of government decrees, in the official calendars, in the diplomatic sections of the Almanack de Gotha...
...Committee on Freshman Elections. The rules for these elections have been carefully and thoughtfully worked out in advance, and their improvements should be taken as bases for future innovations by members of the Student Council. New methods have been evolved for the nomination of candidates and a pernicious evil, the duplication of votes has been fore-stalled by the simple remedy of checking off each voter at the polls. Such clarification of an important function of the two classes deserves high praise. Better still it deserves the flattery of imitation...