Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ruled by money, and this leads to a dangerous passivity toward problems of the spirit." But sometimes Antonioni's pessimism seems almost as sick as the sickness he deplores, and certainly it is naive. The love of money is not, St. Paul to the contrary, the root of evil; and evil is not the dominant quality of modern life. Evil there is, but even in evil there is hope. As Mephistopheles admits in Goethe's Faust: ''I am the spirit that ever denies. That ever Evil wills and ever Good accomplishes...
...already evil is stirring-like a chick buzzard, in the author's fondly turned simile, already pecking its way through its shell. Chief evildoer is Randy's guardian, wicked Judge Ball. Under the terms of the will, Randy comes into full control of his money when he marries. The judge would find this awkward because he has stolen most of the money...
...pretty soon you realize that this straight-faced world is slightly magic around the edges. Evil is a man in a striped suit and derby hat who tries to destroy dreams. He is a dictatorial mayor and selfish capitalist and doesn't believe that Sandcastle Pier is a boat. Of course it is. We registered it under the laws of the new country of Liberama. And it makes so many people happy that...
...high time we realized the threat of creeping socialism, and its ruthless comrade, atheistic communism," Benson said. "Socialistic communism is essentially a war against God. We are engaged in a struggle aginst the evil, satanical priestcraft of Lucifer...
...fellow townsfolk, who have chosen to ignore what is going on. Böll's point: in an insane world, sanity is madness. Duly confined to an asylum, Faehmel's mother at last recognizes her most dreaded enemy-not the Nazis, who personify the known power of evil, but respectability, which would rather look the other way than cause a fuss...