Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conscience as well as the endurance of the majority . . . It is the majority which does the damage under our American form of government. It passes legislation. It is the majority that should be restrained . . . I now am of the opinion that cloture, in any form, is an evil, a termite gnawing at our very vitals, an instrument of which we would be well...
...tolerant that he has outgrown all old-fashioned convictions of inherent right and wrong, good and evil...
Richard III is prentice Shakespeare (some have argued that it is not all his) and in it the early Bard catches only the surfaces of evil. But he gives Richard two thoroughly vivid characteristics: a malign, gloating wit and a flamboyant love of effect. The role is an actor's dream because Richard is himself forever acting-throwing not a dark veil but a bright light round his hypocrisies, welcoming, not wincing at his bloody crimes. Seldom has there been such joy of villainy...
...fights, gunplay, chases, and the wholesome passion of a clean-cut Ladd (Alan) for a Good Woman (Brenda Marshall). The complicating fact is that Brenda is married to Alan's old friend (Robert Preston). But Preston develops a taste for too much liquor, too many women and two evil companions (Donald Crisp and Frank Faylen...
...Evil in Purple. What a sell-out audience saw when the curtain finally went up on Salome last week, they would not soon forget. From the pit (which Reiner had ordered lowered to its bottom notch so he and the huge, augmented orchestra could try to keep out of sight), they heard the power, brilliance and detail of Strauss's music as they had seldom heard it before. Onstage, they saw an incandescently evil Salome, flashing in green, purple and red, who commanded the performance from beginning to end. Soprano Welitsch had critics reaching back for comparisons to Olive...