Word: evils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia's V. M. Zonov, while pointing-out that the "progressive social legislation" in the Soviet Union had solved the problem of prostitution, nevertheless supported the unamended article, to help alleviate, in other countries, an evil "from, which the poor suffer most." In vain Haiti's Stephen Alexis argued that it was no use trying to suppress prostitution,, since, "as long as there are planets in the sky," there would also be prostitutes, and-at that, "of both sexes." France's amendment (if not Mrs. Warren's profession) was defeated...
Creation, writes Barth, is grace. All created things are kept from a state of nothingness only by God. But the "whole realm we term evil-death, sin, the Devil and hell-is not God's creation, but rather what was excluded by God's creation, that to which God has said 'No.' And if there is a reality of evil, it can only be the reality of this excluded and repudiated thing, the reality behind God's back, which He passed over when He made the world and made it good." Thus, evil is nothingness...
...Fantasy's first 70,000-copy issue, Boucher and McComas have presented a fine array of chills & thrills, including a story by H. H. Holmes, touted as "a master of evil" (but not also identified as Editor Boucher himself). Though off to a good start, Fantasy faces a major problem : science is making such rapid strides that it is hard for fiction writers to keep ahead of the scientists...
...daring to suggest that some Negroes may be villains-and some white Southerners decent men-Pinky will annoy those who insist on their propaganda with easy good & evil labels. Anyone who is determined to look for the cliches of antidiscrimination propaganda might charge that the sour-sweet old plantation owner (Ethel Barrymore) is a "symbol" of white paternalism and the Ethel Waters role a "symbol" of Aunt Jemimaism. But Pinky is the most skillful type of propaganda: in avoiding crude and conventional labeling, it leaves a strong impression that racial discrimination is not only unreasonable but evil...
...Sweden, Stockholm's Svenska Dagbladet wondered tearfully "how a little country can hold itself alone in an evil world." In Istanbul, the daily Cumhuriyet sighed: "All we can do is pray to Allah that he grant some wisdom to humanity...