Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Choose Mississippi." Even "moderate" Southerners for whom segregation was an indefensible evil are warning the North to keep hands off. Mississippi's Nobel Prizewinner William Faulkner, whose novels eloquently express the thoughtful Southerners' sense of moral guilt toward the Negro, recently told a British newspaperman: "I don't like enforced integration any more than I like enforced segregation. If I have to choose between the United States Government and Mississippi, then I'll choose Mississippi ... If it came to fighting, I'd fight for Mississippi against the United States, even if it meant going...
...theater, he brightens perceptibly. He loves national flags-except for that of Ireland which "should replace the sickly-looking tricolor of green, white and yellow" with "the old flag, a lovely one, of the green field with the harp in its center." In "The Power of Laughter: Weapon Against Evil," O'Casey voices his deepest conviction: "Laughter is wine for the soul . . . Once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living ... It is odd how many seem to be curiously envious of laughter, never of grief . . . The saying...
...office of the presidency," said Stevenson, "is indeed the most awesome and powerful temporal office on earth. Its potential for good or evil is virtually without limit. And it is precisely because this is so that the election of 1956 is a unique one in our country's history. The President has announced that he is going to run for re-election under certain conditions -conditions relating to the limitations of time and energy which he can give to this greatest responsibility on earth, and as to how this responsibility can be distributed among his associates...
...names, including a sober study entitled When France Occupied Europe (1792-1815). Consequently, when he makes Caroline an eyewitness to Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, he knows what that eyeful was. Every page of Secrets is dotted with the stock characters of romantic fiction-dashing lieutenants, gallant generals, evil-faced spies and slimy turncoats-but Saint-Laurent trots them out with verve, gives them real jobs to do. The most dignified historian might respect Saint-Laurent's dramatic, spine-freezing account of Boney's awful homeward trudge, which would teach most schoolboys a lot more than they...
...setting is a Vermont village adorned in the technicolor hues of Autumn. Harry, a stranger, is found dead at the top of the hill. The rabbit-hunting old man, the frustrated town matron, and the rebellious wife all suspect each is responsible for the evil deed himself. The first two are remorseful, the last seems pretty relieved...