Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Powell concluded his self-exonerating House speech with a stirring statement about his battle against the forces of evil: "I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, that I ought to do, and what I ought to do, by the grace of God, I will...
...Evil Man." Next day Clark had his own sort of inning. About 25 Negroes were kept waiting outside the courthouse in a drenching rain. Clark appeared, read a court order forbidding demonstrations. The Rev. C. T. Vivian, a close King associate, berated Clark! "Maybe you're not as bad as Hitler," he shouted, "but you are an evil man!" Whereupon Clark knocked him, mouth bloodied, to the ground. Said Clark later: "If I hit him, I don't know it. One of the first things I ever learned was not to hit a nigger with your fist because...
...Macbeth. That last is simple enough. It was their extreme closeness at first that was so good, both because they had just returned from fighting side by side in a battle, and because when they do draw apart at the witches' greeting it as if the better and the evil part of one-man were differentiating themselves...
...Invent a French girl, call her Nina. Give her attacks of compulsive eating, because she was in a concentration camp during the war. And give Nina attacks of compulsive sex. Explain how it was, not to be able to avoid doing it with the guards. The innocence-fused-with-evil bit. Make her a sex witch, every man's dream of coy seductiveness. Men fight over her. Fighting's another basic basic. So how do we rescue Nina from her compulsions? Well, there's this dream man, a rich American, and it all comes out O.K. because...
...kitchen," a shabby restaurant run by three somewhat pathetic, somewhat noble women. Just as the audience begins to understand their funny view of the world, their hopeless ineptitude, and their dreams of beauty and happiness, a new element enters the story. Although not exactly a personification of evil, Mr. Perkins is the symbol of business, advertising, wealth and anal compulsiveness; through his intervention the restaurant stages a glowing comeback and the women's dreams are quite thoroughly extinguished...