Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lowell. "Was he poor," remarked Lowell in interpreting Thoreau's perverse logic, "money was an unmixed evil." For Lowell, a plea of impoverishment could scarcely prove viable; a faculty hesitant in reproving Henry now proved all the more severe in striking down the persistent and exuberantly dressed James...
DAIRY OF A CHAMBERMAID. Sex and sadism among the bourgeoisie of provincial France, with Jeanne Moreau as the Parisian maid who studies evil through a cool, clear glass...
sable stole. And her voice still ranges from purr to snarl in I Want to Be Evil ("I want to wake up in the morning with that dark brown taste, I want to see dissss-apation in my face"). She had to cool off one ringsider with "I only sing these songs; I don't live them...
...lives of ordinary people in ordinary language. He stamped all over the parlor niceties of Victorian tradition and proclaimed in a booming voice that heroines are not often virgins heroes are not usually gentlemen. He did not necessarily punish the wicked. Indeed, in Dreiser's novels good and evil do not exist-there is only unheroic suffering and scrambling for success. In retrospect, his prose seems clotted, clumsy, pompous, prolix, humorless, flatulent and dull. An American Tragedy ran to 385,000 words ("250,000 of them unnecessary," snorted Mencken). Nevertheless, Dreiser's dogged honesty and ruthless candor opened...
...ancestral seat. To them, he disburses much money and all of himself. Author Vonnegut casts Rosewater as a misbegotten saint in a world that puts saints to the stake. Beyond that point lurks another: that goodness ought to have its head examined for trying to coexist with evil. In this book, his sixth, Vonnegut clearly establishes his kinship to the late Nathanael West, and Eliot Rosewater could easily pass as the reincarnation of Miss Lonelyhearts. But Vonnegut is both riper and less mature than West-and less angry. Able to observe detachedly above the world's fray...