Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Dramatization of H. G. Wells's The Magic Shop, in which a young boy with supernatural evil powers visits a magic shop and disappears...
...financial base under half of Chinatown's enterprises during years when Chinese could not even get life insurance. A high point in her career came in 1962, when she helped preside over the opening of a new bank building in ceremonies featuring firecrackers and tiger dancers to drive evil spirits away from the dragon-crested doors...
Christopher Flanders, "Angel of Death" and freeloading mystic, sheds no greater spiritual light than he did the first time. Chris represents goodness conceived of negatively as the absence of evil. As Tab Hunter plays him, he is the saint as camp counselor, an earnest, bearded, good-deed-a-day man, but scarcely a religious knight shielding the weak from the fierce dominion of death...
...compel abortions, for the most trivial or venal reasons, or mere convenience; they out themselves off from big experience. Dr. Blaine then chose as his principle theme the "tragedy" of the unwed pregnant girl. A student then protested that if Dr. Blaine thought that this was such an ultimate evil, why didn't the University clinic provide contraceptives on request? Dr. Blaine evaded the question. I thought this evasion was contemptible, his tears were crocodile tears, and I suppose I blew up and let him know it. I pointed out, too, that it was his ideas that made the situation...
Mephistopheles shows up, dressed almost exactly like Faustus, indicating to the slow-witted that good and evil are close kin. They plot to recover the ring -Mephistopheles wants Faustus to be vastly powerful; Faustus wants to prevent the ring from being used with disastrous results to mankind. For those who miss this one, the playbill features snapshots of nuclear explosions and sketches of old alchemy labs...