Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...treatment of American prisoners by the Reds in the Korean war poses [for] the free nations an evil problem: "What can we do about the Communists' hellish brainwashing technique for torturing 'confessions' out of prisoners of war?" I have no sympathy whatever for a prisoner who squealed on his buddies or who sold them out for his own benefit. We should throw the book at him and disgrace him. I have much sympathy for those who, under torture, gave the Reds "military information" of the kind we broadcast to the four winds in our magazines and newspapers...
Gauguin's latest biographers, the Hansons, are a British husband-and-wife team who have successfully sunk their teeth into some big, meaty subjects, including Necessary Evil: The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle (TIME, May 19, 1952) and Chinese Gordon (TIME, May 31). Gauguin is an even tougher order, not only because he needs explaining as an artist who helped change the face of painting, but because he has become a symbol of the conflict between art and breadwinnery, artistic duty and normal social responsibility. In their fine study, the Hansons' own sympathy is with the artist...
...about his new post. But the tall, slim airman, now 43, talked suspiciously like a commanding officer: "The new German air force will not be built around World War II flyers, who are now too old. It will be built around youth. It's now become a necessary evil for Germany to rearm." For the record, Bureau Blank, West Germany's shadow Defense Ministry, denied any ties to Galland (it does not like to name names before the French Senate votes). But privately a Bureau Blank man admitted: "Galland, after all, is about the only man we have...
...Lesser Evil. In Portsmouth, Ohio, Judge Lowell Thompson dismissed a drunken-driving charge against Robert Fortenberry, 32, after hearing Fortenberry's explanation: in his home state of Georgia, police confiscate an auto if liquor is found in it, so rather than lose his new car after a traffic mishap, he drank the half-pint of whisky he had under the seat...
...laid a curse on you, Ilya? What have you done? You are kind, intelligent, tender, honorable, and-you are going to wrack and ruin! What has ruined you? There is no name for that evil.' " 'Yes, there is,' he said in a hardly audible whisper...