Word: evil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...distinguished dramatic triumphs of the modern theatre ... the New York theatre crowd was jolted out of its sophistication. Milling at the intermission, filing through doors, Manhattan secretaries with their tweedy, nebulous fiances, asthmatic maiden aunts from New York, students and old gentlemen and matron dowagers were discussing innocence and evil and faith and love and what is guilt with a passion admirable in a college freshman.... a singular achievement, and complaints ... are profane...
...habit or boredom, or as to a club where they can gossip and wisecrack and argue various isms. One of them brings his 18-year-old granddaughter, a schizophrenic who has been in and out of asylums and who, he thinks, is possessed of a dybbuk or evil spirit that must be exorcised. Amid prayer and prattle, amid the girl's infatuation for the young lawyer, the young lawyer's involvement with his analyst, the old rabbi's rapt communings with his God, the synagogue prepares for the exorcism ceremony. In the rather confusing midst...
...sinful behavior, written by 36 authors (he contributed two). Most of the sinning in the book runs the familiar gamut from adultery to zealotry, but the special sins of the modern world make earthier reading. Moviemakers, writes the Rev. Salvatore Casals, should be careful to distinguish between evil and sin, and to depict sin as something more than inconveniently illegal. Worst offenders are those modern films which ignore the existence of sin, but even family life is often dealt with deceptively-and therefore sinfully-on the screen ("Child-rearing is absent from many films, or reduced to a single child...
...learned a lot about life. I've learned a lot about myself, and about the responsibilities any man has to his fellow men. I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be. I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception. The fact that I, too, was very much deceived cannot keep me from being the principal victim of that deception, because I was its principal symbol. There may be a kind of justice in that. I don't know. I do know, and I can say it proudly...
...agreed to make them only when a regal candomblé priestess known as a mãe do santo (mother of the saint) explained that the iron figures were harmless until "blessed." His raw material is scrap iron, but Costa's crudely formed statuettes are striking embodiments of evil, have the authority of images born of the terror of unquestioning belief...