Word: evil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This breaks the literary canon that flippancy about death is indecent. It also cracks a lot of other time-honored conventions: the eccentric, all-knowing detective, the stupid Dr. Watson, stupendous examples of deduction, the contest between evil and the law, the contest of wits between reader and author (whodunit) -not to mention the sealed room and other elaborate means of murder. Sometimes it very nearly gets rid of plot itself...
Last week in Manhattan, scholarly Archibald MacLeish, ex-assistant Secretary of State, pointed the moral. When the press had finished with Sir Frederick, MacLeish said, "the sum total effect was a lie and a disastrous and evil...
...such favorite hymns as Fairest Lord Jesus. After a simple prayer, well-groomed, grey-haired Dr. Sockman-who looks like a successful lawyer and talks like the man next door-preaches a sermon in everyday terms on subjects close to every listener: "Fears May Be Liars"; "How Easy Is Evil?''; "Does It Pay to Be Good...
...born to get along with life ... he regards politics as nothing but falsehood, murder, deceit, and violence, as something completely and one-sidedly filthy, and if worldly ambition prompts him to take up politics, he pursues it in the light of this philosophy. . . . Since he thinks it is unalloyed evil, he believes he has to be a devil to pursue...
...evil smoke rose from Peiping's Forbidden City. By order of the National Government, a public bonfire was consuming 800,000 ounces of confiscated opium. China's great drive against the drug traffic was under way again...