Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than the effects of female cyclists which are evil. Their motivations are of the worst-sort--the lust for power and speed, the urge to kill or be killed. If Radcliffe girls must grapple with the problems of life and death, we hope they will do so in lower level Gen Ed courses, rather than in the streets where maimed Harvard men fall by the wayside...
...some time now President Pusey has been speaking of the crowding in the Houses as if it were an unmitigated evil. He has voiced a desire to return to pre-war housing standards, by eliminating the double bed and giving every undergraduate a private bedroom. In order to impliment this program he has announced that the College will spend ten million dollars to build two new houses...
...intelligent and sensitive to accept the Enlightenment's shallow optimism and Utopian illusions about the human condition. On the other hand, he cannot move in the opposite direction towards religion. He is frozen midway. He accepts the Christian insight into the nature of evil, but rejects the rest of Christian theology. Every line of his book argues the need for religion, but he cannot accept God, even though his notion of original sin seems to postulate the existence...
Only in a Colette novel could such details be touched with innocence and wonder. Like most restless and intelligent adolescents, Claudine seeks knowledge for its own sake. For her, adult behavior is neither good nor evil. It is just continuously absorbing, as the sex life of a lemming might be to a biologist. Similarly, Claudine punches and teases little Luce Lanthenay merely from a clinical desire to discover the effect of such cruelty on herself. All her hyperthyroid activity has but one goal: to make things happen and then study the results...
Soloway asserted that his opposition to the proposed sales tax was "not based on the simple doctrinary thesis that the sales tax is an evil thing," but rather on the grounds that there is "absolutely no need...