Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...action opens in the latter region, where His Satanic Majesty has acquired a painful sty in his evil little eye. This, his ministers agree, is when a fellow needs a fiend. They remind Mephisto that "a woman's chastity is a sty in the Devil's Eye.'' and point out the perfection that has caused his infection-the virgin daughter (Bibi Andersson) of an innocent country parson (Nils Poppe). "Where innocence is greatest.'' Mephisto murmurs wickedly, "evil is nearest...
Abracadabra! The Evil One relieves Don Juan (Jarl Kulle) of his atrocious eternal torment, seduction without satisfaction, and restores him to life with infernal instructions: lance that sty. The Great Lover-whom Bergman wittily conceives as the typical hero of a hair-oil ad, the sort of won't-you-be-my-Valentino every schoolgirl at some point adores-arrives at the rendezvous to find his ladylove smeared with housepaint and dressed in blue jeans. He stares in dismay. What...
...11th century B.C., bronze vessels were deposited in the tombs of great men to serve the needs of the body that remained bound to the earth; there was no higher function for the artist than to turn out these ritual vessels. The intricate decoration not only warded off evil but provided a gateway for the artist's imagination. Fantastic animals, ogres' heads, symbols of the yang and yin, and finally the human figure, all made their appearance, and the bronzes themselves were never surpassed in the workmanship of later artisans...
...like his hero, decides that the highest morality is the individual's. But if all soldiers become Larsans, there would be no armies. His act of conscience is understandable and moving, but it offers no real answer to the problem buried in An End to Glory: How can evil be met without adopting the weapons of evil...
...people, the fact is that the situation is nothing else but a new application of a constantly recurring moral decision that is described by Roman Catholic moral theologians as the principle of double effect. This means that in doing one good action with good intention, one may find an evil result inextricably connected with the good that is intended. Examples in the past are the unavoidable death of noncombatants in war, and abandonment of a disabled ship to wolf-pack submarines in World War II convoys. Without any hesitation, I believe one could justify restricting capacity of a fallout shelter...