Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway, the temptation to titillate looms even greater, and is widely indulged. The Living Theater, which produced Jack Gelber's earliest, The Connection, his latest, The Apple, and Bertolt Brecht's Jungle of the Cites, is particularly guilty. The Connection deals with dope, jazz and all that evil stuff. It sells as a result. His new job, The Apple, is set in a coffee house that reproduces the visiting salesman's image of Greenwich Village...
...Wolfson's most irritating weakness, for he leaves his audience wondering about an enormous number of embarrassing technical matters. Why, after all, should lost souls produce a kind of "spiritual fallout"? Why should Nathan's metaphysics be so simple-minded that He cannot grasp the mechanics of good and evil on His earth? A lack of precision, a lack simply of detail, reduces much of Dr. Plantagenet to situation comedy in a wild setting. Its fascination is undeniable, but it derives far more from one's desire to learn more about a weirdly built cosmos than from any inherent appeal...
...feeble effort to put a respectable face on things. The parallel with the Ivy League is this: it is just as hypocritical for Ohio State to refuse to go to the Rose Bowl as it is for Harvard and the Ivies to say they don't recruit (in the "evil" sense of the word...
...fact value athletic ability over other talents. In the past week, two high Administration officials have privately admitted that the College is not true-blue in this respect. And yet, if there should be shame attached to these facts, it should not arise from the premise that recruiting is evil--although perhaps it is. The guilt is that Harvard continues to proclaim its innocence publicly, as in Mr. Barnaby's letter...
Miss Taylor said the PBH Cabinet realized it was a two-sided issue but felt "the question of the potential good the project could do outweighed the evil of having to exclude Jewish students." She expressed appreciation for the "exhaustive consideration given this very difficult issue by the Committee and the College community...