Word: sinistere
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No Epics. But the congestion and confusion, Berlin decided, had also a more sinister cause. U.S. universities, he found, were plagued by an enervating sense of guilt-a "state of mind of academic persons . . . whom war service or some other sharp new experience has made painfully aware of the social...
There is a little band of men around this university engaged in a sinister occupation. We don't know who they are yet, but take it from us, they're out to get us all.
Intellectual life in American universities is faced by a "comparatively new and sinister enemy," according to Isaish Berlin, former Harvard lecturer on philosophy and first secretary at Britain's Washington embassy during World War II.
"When I tried to suggest to my more socially conscious American students that intellectual curiosity was not necessarily a form of sin or even frivolity and that a possible valid reason for pursuing this or that branch of knowledge was merely that they were interested in it.... I could see...
Bacon's first exhibition, which opened in a London gallery last week, represented a minor triumph for his tight, bright little circle of admirers. By dint of carefully mingled rapture and doubt, they had persuaded him to save twelve canvases for the show. Whether his twelve survivors represented a...