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Word: evilness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poor Professor Handlin--his true life's work has been abused and distorted by faction writers. Mario Puzo, author of Fortunate Pilgrim, betrayed the historical method in fabricating "the shiny Godfarther" less than ten years later. And television, that boxed perpetrator of evil, flaunts docudramas such as "Washington Behind Closed Doors," and "Truman at Potsdam...

Author: By Brenda A. Russell, | Title: A Tale of Woe | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...national, ethical, racial or religious group..." This convention was the direct response to Nazi mass murder. At the time, the 1946 resolution against genocide and the convention were viewed as vital components of an international prevention of this crime. As Allen Barth noted in 1948, this concrete stance against evil was necessary because the Holocaust was an event that "the human mind finds it difficult to remember, as it found it difficult to grasp." The resolution and convention were supposed to overcome this awe-inspired inertia by giving all nations "the legal right to intervene in any country where genocide...

Author: By Thomas M. Levenson, | Title: By Any Other Name | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

...noble chestnut and white steeds, the Green Meanies approached the fateful Bridge of Sir Anderson. In all the kingdom, this bridge was known as a great obstacle, the final gateway into King Joseph's Court. An evil mixture of tar and stone, the bridge spanned the ferocious waters of King Charles' Rivers, Violent eddies and gurgling whirlpools waited below...

Author: By Faithful Scribe, | Title: Green Meanies | 10/20/1979 | See Source »

That there is still poverty, starvation, fear, anxiety, doubt, oppression, hate, horror and evil in America the morning after his departure is no trifle of John Paul's. It is his horror. And today, the evil which the Pope addressed no longer threatens "to take over the world," as he understated--it is destroying...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Going Away Sadly | 10/16/1979 | See Source »

...Whereas in the 1920s we had withdrawn from the world because we thought we were too good for it, the insidious theme of the late 1960s was that we should withdraw from the world because we were too evil for it." So writes Kissinger. What, then, should be the philosophy behind U.S. foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: CRISIS AND CONFRONTATION | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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