Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this last point, Leifer and I disagree, as you might expect. Gordon's nationalism is no different from that German madness against which Buber warned the Jews in 1933. Universalist Christians (I use the adjective to weed Hegel out) have always maintained that the nation-state is a necessary evil, and that one's higher loyalties are to God and mankind. Leifer swallows Gordon's odd Germanic idea that the nation is the locus of man's creativity, that there are "no human ideals which are not national ideals." Gordon, it must be said, did tend to think of Israel...
What's worse, the Gallery's insurgent director, a total newcomer from, God forbid, Reed College, obviously cloisters the most evil of all intentions within his crafty mind. No one could doubt that he is dedicated to the utter humiliation of the Club. For he is embarking upon an experiment which is altogether too daring, too wild, too foolish, to merit the least glimmer of hope for success--he is exhibiting representational, objective...
...those eager to be convinced that Nikita Khrushchev is an evil, evil man Conquest Without War is recommended reading. The book is "an analytical anthology of the speeches, interviews and remarks of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev," with a running commentary by two men who have read all of Mr. K's speeches and lived to tell about it. N. H. Mager and Jacques Katel are the two heroes, and they lay the Whole Truth on the line: Stalin's real name was Dzhugashvili; Russian farmers are short of fertilizer; the per capita income of the U.S.S.R. is only $310 a year...
...when military airplanes rarely went faster than 200 miles an hour, and the involved dogfights possible at such low speeds are continually described in a tone that makes one wonder if Aten and his boys will ever fail to send the "Bolshie" villains crashing earthward in a cloud of evil-smelling smoke...
...matter how true the little speeches each character makes on the nature of war or good and evil, most sound foolish simply because of their incongruity. This is not the movie for speeches; it is the movie for shooting and fighting...