Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book is a hellbox in a wider sense: about two-thirds of the stories record brief episodes of evil. O'Hara is an expert at ugly moments, probably the best expert in contemporary U.S. writing. Like many of his stones, these have such painful audibility that they make life itself seem an ugly moment unduly prolonged. The figures in his Inferno are mainly Broadway, Hollywood and resort people with a few professional criminals thrown...
...Lake was created centuries ago when doves, tired by a long flight, sank down at evening and started to scratch the moist soil. They found water, and at last the lake appeared. But when the slave traders came, the doves left and the place was pervaded by evil. Yet a prophecy promised that when the doves returned, so would the good times. One day in 1941 a huge silvery Pan Am seaplane came circling over the water. The oldest chief squinted and declared: "The doves have come...
...putting the blame on the twelve-year-old intelligence of the public. Rather it is the utter ignorance of the people who make movies. They create in perfect cynicism what they think will sell . . . . I have no word to say of what I think of their [the movies'] evil. I don't go; I can't take the beating...
...evil-smelling darkness of the Victory Theater on Washington Street, a well-balanced program is being shown these days. While one picture demonstrates graphically the dangers of Ceylon rural life, the other is equally disenchanting about our own urban civilization. But for the man who does not give a hang for the sociological view, and merely wants to be entertained, both features are the nuts...
...helplessness and in despair ... he would have chosen his own damnation: he was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good nor Evil unless he brought them into being. He was alone . . . without assistance and without excuse, condemned to decide without support from any quarter, condemned forever to be free...