Word: diabolicalness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arthur Miller is one of our leading contrivers of theatrical explosion, and the trial scene of his Crucible blows up with a thoroughly characteristic, thoroughly effective blast. The rest of his account of certain diabolic activities in Massachusetts is uneven but interesting; Mr. Miller's utter, earnest conviction flames forth...
"Diabolic" Plots. The massacre that never happened was to remain the mystery of the week. Only the day before the emergency was declared, Nyasaland's Governor, Sir Robert Armitage, had flatly stated that no such drastic action would be needed. Now Sir Robert had suddenly taken a stand that...
Sir Roy, onetime locomotive engineer, insisted, as he later put it, that there were "diabolic" plots afoot, "strikes, riots, then real violence culminating in assassination of whites and Africans." In the end, Armitage, who himself expressed no such fears, transmitted them to London, proclaimed an emergency in Nyasaland, began mass...
Spencer Tracy plays the stranger, a man endowed with the resourcefulness of Robinson Crusoe, to say nothing of an incredible judo chop. Robert Ryan is the principal meanie, but his neanderthal sidekicks supply most of the diabolic appeal. Anne Francis contributes the moist lipstick.
If Nikita Khrushchev was TIME'S 1957 choice for Man of the Year, then he doubly deserves your selection for 1958. No other man dominated the world's news more, albeit to the disgust of free men and nations, than this sly, scheming, abusive, arrogant, warmongering, vodka-guzzling...