Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life. Unfortunately for Mr. Lucas and Mr. Gordon, this is an easy way out. As long as we can comfort ourselves in the belief that we are witnessing another person in a state of psychological undress, we can maintain exactly the kind of detachment which is the real Evil for Strindberg...
...with any rigid rules of human procedure which the playwright is trying to foist off on us. Rather they involve the immediate, second-to-second perceptions and judgments by which we decide within ourselves about the character of our fellow human beings. The nature of the Good and Evil on which these judgments are based (either by us or by Strindberg) is no more Nietzschean than it is Christian or humanitarian or Talmudie...
...slipping so easily into convenient beliefs about Good triumphing over Evil (Mummy defeats Hummel) or explanations like the mechanical one of the third scene with relation to the Cook, a critic reveals something more about his own modes of perception than he does about Strindberg's intentions, "fantasies and obsessions." In this sense, he both misses the truth of the play, and, by this very fault, proves its validity. We so much the more belong to Strindberg's configuration by every insufficient and damaging appraisal we make of the appearances before us. Thomas J. Babe, Jr. '63, Director, "Ghost Sonata...
...lets escape an evil little laugh...
...report Lodge's pretty respectable academic record, Miss Levine, writing about Teddy, announces tearfully that the Gov. Department, with an eye to justice, we assume, withholds that sort of thing. Never fear--the CRIMSON has managed to unearth a tutor (no doubt one who believes Teddy to be incredibly evil) with a knowledge of Teddy's "folder" and "... he (the tutor) certainly wishes it could be made public." Great. That's justice all right. "Ted was one of the boys," we are told. Presumably of the wrong kind of boys, however. A clubbie, a spender of his father's money...