Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turning up here at the TIME & LIFE Building in the wake of our book, Strictly for the Birds, which I told you about recently. The business of miscalling our feathered friends has now been advanced, or retarded, by such additions to the aviary as the Blue Funk, the Lesser Evil, the Involuntary Flinch and, heaven protect us, the Working Gull. There have been many requests for additional copies of the bird book, and we are fulfilling them as long as the supply lasts...
...Catholics we abominate and we condemn syndicated crime and vice. It is as despicable as it is evil. We condemn the underworld and all its barbarous and cowardly ways. But we condemn also the overworld-liquor executives, public officials . . . and the like who, though able to retain the aura of respectability, sacrifice every decent principle for their own contemptible and selfish ends...
...Theodore Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize. This is what he said about Peace at Christiania, Norway: '. . . Peace is generally good in itself, but it is never the highest good unless it comes as the handmaid of righteousness; and it becomes a very evil thing if it serves merely as a mask for cowardice and sloth, or as an instrument to further the ends of despotism or anarchy...
...Greater Trumps, as in the other four, good and evil, love and selfishness, salvation and damnation are as palpable and pervasive as the terrifying Christmas Day blizzard that forces his characters to cast up their spiritual accounts in an eerie English country house. All Williams needs to get things started is a rare deck of cards, the perfectly normal Coningsby family and a suitor for Nancy Coningsby who has gypsy connections. From there on, in deceptively simple prose, Williams keeps his story moving without a hitch on three levels: 1) a more-or-less conventional love story; 2) a psychological...
...generation that lived on Florida booms, hip flasks, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Charleston, and the out-of-sight spiral of a rocketing stock market. Its faces range from the ludicrous (Calvin Coolidge in an Indian war bonnet) to the complacent (Jimmy Walker in a ticker-tape parade) to the evil (the pudgy, bland-eyed look of a paretic Al Capone...