Word: badness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, not all the reviews were favorable. "The civil union of an Indian prince and his girl friend by a Communist functionary," sneered Los Angeles' Father Thomas J. McCarthy in his tabloid Tidings. Moaned A.P.'s Hal Boyle: "A strictly grade B script . . . how bad can times get?" The script was no worse than Rita's touted The Lady from Shanghai; like the film, it was expensive, pointless, and covered a lot of geography...
Meanwhile the lonely old woman sits and remembers. "There's no reason," she muses, "for Nico to be Communist. Sometimes I blame myself because I used to beat him when he was a bad boy." Then her eyes kindle for a moment. "But he wrote me once," she goes on, "he wrote and said I was a good mother." She adds bitterly: "I was a good mother, whose womb has cradled a snake...
...give up my bad temper. I'll not give up my passions. I've enjoyed them far too much to put them away. I'll not give up my prejudices . . . the very foundation of my strength and vigour...
Ducey's only complaint about his men was that in spite of their abundant will to win they could never be persuaded to lay off cigarettes, liquor, and bad hours. Had the Eliot oarsmen concentrated on keeping in condition, they could have been undefeated. Ducey thinks...
Poverty on Purpose. His aim was to change modern society into one in which "it would be easier for people to be good." His message was simple and uncompromising: capitalism, with its foundations in usury and its dehumanizing of man by machines, is just as bad for mankind as socialism with its depersonalizing state. Workers, he thought, should leave the factories and work the land in agrarian communities retaining the barest minimum of private property. Participation in modern war he held to be always wrong-all Christians should be pacifists. And the best state of all for a Christian, said...