Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characters are humanity's archetypes. Mr. & Mrs. Antrobus (Fredric March & Florence Eldridge) are the eternal Mr. & Mrs.; their maid Sabina (Tallulah Bankhead) is Lilith, the eternal floozy; their son Henry (Montgomery Clift) is Cain, the eternal Dead-End kid. Their story is the eternal struggle between good & evil, the eternal seesaw of progressing and falling back. Mr. Antrobus comes home excitedly from the office, having invented the wheel and fixed up the alphabet-but the Ice Age has arrived. Next he swaggers fatuously about Atlantic City, backslapping his lodge brothers and falling for a bathing beauty-but the Flood...
...duty of the Allied Nations to see that the post-war world is free from the evil influences of Nazism and Fascism, and that the Axis leaders are not allowed to rise to positions of power again. This can be accomplished by arresting and imprisoning for life the leaders of the Axis nations and their Quisling representatives in the occupied countries. Any attempt at specifically fixing the war guilt and providing punishment for war crimes will only result in a jumble of conflicting ideas and provide a source of ridicule for posterity...
...this new military situation, Italy once more enters the valley of decision. She must decide whether she will exhaust her remaining men, and let her nationhood ebb out as servant of a decaying Nazi state, or whether she will cleanse herself from the evil into which her Fascists have...
...levels. Under the price law, OPA could not then freeze butter prices, which jumped upward and tried to drag milk prices along. But for the distributors, the Government provided subsidies of $1 million a month -temporary hush money until OPA and the Agriculture Department could decide on the least evil of three: 1) raise milk a cent a quart; 2) lower the average price to farmers; 3) continue paying subsidies...
World-Deep. Professor Hocking's subject is the spiritual task of the churches in wartime. He says: "Men have labored a thousand years to make civilization stable; war shows the frailty of their wisdom. War is thus the great evil, and the great revealer of flaws; it is the great darkness when man's artificial light goes out; it is the ruthless exposer of shame. Now it is the function of religion to solve the 'problem of evil' for men none of whom escape evil. Since war is the great evil, it is the ultimate task...