Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Vichy old Marshal Henri Philippe Petain broadcast an appeal to the people of France. In his tired, halting voice he begged: "Frenchmen, your duty is clear -put an end to this butchery. Do not let more evil be done in France." Frenchmen who illegally tuned in the BBC broadcast from London heard an other radio appeal. General Charles de Gaulle asked his countrymen not to kill Germans "in the present circumstances. ..." Instead he asked all Frenchmen to join a general strike, to spend five minutes this Friday in silence and "scornful meditation...
...only large criticism of the production. To compensate for that, the treatment of the love of the Macbeths is handled admirably, making them more human and their deeds more plausible, while the inclusion on stage of the murders of Banquo and Lady Macduff intensifies the horror of Macbeth's evil deeds. All the scenes are excellently staged and the play never for a moment loses its terrifying force...
...Article Eight of the Atlantic Pact? Then inded we have sold ourselves to the task of carrying warfare into Europe, not to defeat Hitler, not to save England, not to release subject peoples, but to promote the additional interests of British statecraft. I do not say these are evil interests: I say they are not ours...
Immediately, from the right, from the left, and from behind came a barrage of evil, malavolent stares. Not one of the looks was backed up with a voice, but I had a feeling that I had desecrated something holy, that I had violated the Saturday afternoon taboo of the fourth estate by making an enthusiastic noise. From that point on I followed my own example of the first three quarters and desisted...
...pounds of make-up, and relies upon mugging and histrionics to do the rest. His is the case of a man trying to take some of the duties of the divine into his own hands. As Jekyll and Hyde, he proves his point about the portions of good and evil in the human system, but pays the supreme sacrifice for his presumption. With more than his ordinary zeal for a part, perhaps too much. Tracy nevertheless does a thoroughly good job. Lana Turner, as the love in his life, shows less of herself (than heretofore) and more acting ability than...