Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of the Nűrnberg trial has been a well-deserved fate for a group of evil men . . . yet the force of the condemnation is not unaffected by the fact that the nations sitting in judgment have so clearly proclaimed themselves exempt from the law which they have administered." Said the Manchester Guardian Weekly: "Behind [the Nűrnberg case] lie the outraged feelings of whole peoples whose memories carry a far heavier load than ours. . . . If they demand a brutal penalty which is yet hopelessly inadequate we may not gainsay them. . . . [But] there are many features of this...
Four of the best performers in Hollywood move smartly through an interesting if slightly muddled psychological story in "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers," a movie which should satisfy the lust for evil in all but the morbidly insatiate. The characters are all either just out of jail or on the verge of getting in with the exception of a district attorney, and he commits murder and suicide at the end to make the criminality virtually unanimous...
...apologia for Long or for the South and to say that it does is to ignore the meta-physical side of Warren's thought. For despite the novel's immersion in a vast welter of detail about Southern life, "All The King's men" is fundamentally a parable of Evil...
...evolvement of his thought across the past few years. All of Warren's work has been informed with an acute and very private sense of Doom. But in his maturer poems, and now in "All The King's Men," Warren has translated this vision of Evil into one of religious affirmation. Willie Stark is corrupted and dies, but through his death Jack Burden finds a love and happiness he had never known. In this does Willie Stark fulfill his own transposition of the Biblical story of the grain of wheat: "good must come out of bad." Surely a knowledge...
...Times are evil because men are evil. It is necessary that men should become good again so that times may also become good again...