Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buber points always to the duality of things-good v. evil, love v. justice, order v. freedom. But he offers no happy middle way between them. Man must not try to choose either-or, nor may he pretend that no real contradiction exists; he can only accept the tension of both opposites. "According to the logical conception of truth," he says, "only one of two contraries can be true, but in the reality of life as one lives it they are inseparable. I have occasionally described my standpoint to my friends as the 'narrow ridge.' I wanted...
With an annoying persistency, the subject of parictal rules each year rises from the morass of College regulations like an evil genie to bedevil Housemasters and students alike. Rules, like babies constantly need changing--or so some people think. Yet, despite the absurd quibbles about giving an hour here and taking one there, one suggestion stands out among the many as sociological rather than mathematical...
...keeping with its Arabian-Nights locale, the picture has a highly improbable plot about a poet who possesses a shapely daughter but no money and, to judge by his verses, no talent. His rise to prosperity involves, of course, an evil wizard and a prince who runs around the streets of Baghdad incognito. Howard Keel, as the poet, is just entertaining enough to suggest that with even half-decent material he might give a fine performance. Ann Blyth does not distinguish her fairly easy part as the poet's daughter, but she does not ruin it either. The same, unfortunately...
...moderation are being heard. Ben-Gurion himself said last week: "We believe the maintenance of peace is preferable even to victory in war. War is legitimate only in absolute self-defense. It is not legitimate if one's aim is the securing of peace or destruction of an evil regime...
...Jackie Gleason and Ed Sullivan-which, happily, are all on CBS. He is impressed by the dramatic shows, and feels that quiz programs are only doing "what has been done since time immemorial: rewarding people for their knowledge." Because of TV's enormous potential for both good and evil, Kingsley thinks that it would be almost criminal for any major artist to ignore it: "The influence of TV can shape an election; thus it can shape the fate of the nation. We mustn't be snobbish about television...