Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the trial recessed over the weekend, Judy's purse had become a symbol of the evil lurking in the kind of overzealous snooping, gossip and talebearing which seemed to be one price of national security. Presumably the noisy little defense attorney thought he was serving his client by spreading the reports on the record; his aim, apparently, was to show the jury that what she took was not of much importance. The judge had done his painful duty as he saw it. "I'm here to see that justice is done," Judge Reeves explained. "If the reading...
...negotiate (which is what he does best) with the French, the British and the Russians, but his main job will be to bear a heavy share of the responsibility for suppressing the worst in the Germans, drawing out the best. For this people have the greatest capacity for good & evil in Europe, and the future of the world may turn upon whether they can be made a democratic, peace-loving people...
Burra is Britain's most successfully shocking surrealist. At 44, he has done the sets and costumes for four ballets and an opera, consistently delighted his tight, bright circle of admirers with such fantasies as Procession (see cut), in which evil red eyes peep from a paraded kettle. "See?" Burra says, "It's going to boil over and swamp them all. The beggar is getting out of the way-he hasn't a chance...
...Track of the Cat, Clark again busies himself with the question of evil, but he has switched from the cool clarity of Ox-Bow to a naive, sometimes murky symbolism that gets in the way of his essentially simple yarn. Again the scene...
...Curt's pursuit of the cat becomes a thriller with symbolic moral overtones that will remind some readers of Moby Dick. The cunning of the cat, the cold, the lack of food, the growing image in Curt's mind of the panther as the embodiment of sinister evil and vengefulness, change the hunter into the hunted. After three numbing days & nights, the weakened, frightened, half-crazed Curt goes over a cliff and is killed, convinced that the panther is now pursuing...