Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legal names of the society are plenty. It was first called 'The Loyal People's Home Returning Squad,' then 'The Volunteer Young Men's Squad.'. . . These squads were ordered dispersed because of their evil deeds [but] the squad that controls my village was renamed 'The Self-Protecting Squad.' . . . The ignorant farmers just called it the Huo Hui-Fire Society...
Suspense (Thurs. 8 p.m., CBS). Beyond Good and Evil, with Vincent Price...
...there is no sign of [a crusade] that I can see. . . . As far as an outsider can judge . . . the Vatican is leaning most heavily on its spiritual strength as a defensive weapon, and its faith that evil cannot in the end prevail...
...sneering snap as the kind of top-grade personal secretary whq works a 168-hour week. Edmond O'Brien shows enough honest heelishness, and little enough hard-boiled mawkishness, to be one of the most likable of the tough young thriller heroes who move into Evil's den and drag it out by the short hair...
...murdering innocence, Nabokov's style is still playful, but it takes on a Swiftian intensity. Krug goes mad. And it is clear that the professor's doom (which is Europe's) came about not merely because he was honorable, but because he was vain, obtuse to evil, and absorbed in his own past...