Word: evil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...descendant of Daniel Webster returned good for evil, last week, to famed Lev Davidovitch Trotsky. The descendant is Poet Max Eastman, 45, sometimes considered a dilettante radical, onetime editor of the brilliant but now defunct review, The Masses* and author of Since Lenin Died. Of this volume Comrade Trotsky wrote in his potent yesterdays: 'fallacious and mendacious . . . exploits single incidents of the [Communist] party discussion . . . perverts the meaning of facts." Since writing those lines Trotsky has been exiled to the remote vicinity of Chinese Turkestan because he dared to continue "party discussion" in a party which demands blind obedience...
...Leopard Lady. She trains the big cats. He is a first mate. Together they dissolve the mystery of an Austrian circus driven somewhat mad by a series of murders, a Cossack rider, and his evil ape. His repertory of crimes is violent, grotesque, allowing Actress Jacqueline Logan, the Leopard Lady, to dress in siren skirts, to act hysterically in a picture which is otherwise emotionally excellent...
...rough Chinese roads to save the honor of a pretty American missionary, lured to a mandarin's den. Heavy with leers, threats, murders and stabbings, the dolorous drama follows Pauline Starke as the girl who loves Marine Kenneth Harlan, who is in turn loved by wicked Margaret Livingston. Evil sticks up like potatoes in Irish stew. It is all excessively Chinese, silly...
...wants with it dramatic stage entertainment, that from the point of view of rational treatment, suggestive action, and characterization, will parallel any intelligently produced drama. From this angle 'Faust' has been approached. In Mephistopheles, who of course is the central figure of the story. Goethe was portraying the evil in man's own nature and the denial of morality and conscience, in the opinion of Rosing. This conception, depicting him as the protagonist of the negative to all human aspirations to good and beautiful giving, has been developed by the American Opera Company. In the opening scene, for instance. Faust...
Herein lies the fundamental, the only problem that confronts reformers. The crying need is for new cushions rather than new chapels. However deepseated this evil has become, prompt action may yet recall daily morning worship from the land of the "has beens." Salvation hangs in the balance...