Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saviour as a heavenly being merely masquerading as human to bring salvation to 3) the elect, who often have to conceal themselves from the world, and who are set apart by 4) their special knowledge and personal purity (sexual intercourse is usually forbidden as serving the ends of the evil creator...
...there be no confusion on this matter: diplomas in English are not isolated evil, but symptoms of a growing blight, a Dutch Elm disease of the soul which starts by ravaging one noble custom and then infects all, until it has denuded the landscape of that which gave it beauty; a fire, which leaves one great oak a smouldering heap of common ashes and then disappears underground, slowly to burn its hellish fire through a subterranean network of roots until it bursts forth once again as a great blaze, consuming all and leaving nothing...
...hundred newsmen in the small Jerusalem courtroom, and millions of televiewers outside, last week stared at a man in a glass cage. What they had expected was the embodiment of evil, a monster accused of having participated in the murder of 6,000,000 innocent men, women and children...
...good deal of the picture is out-and-out sensationalism, smeared on with a heavy hand to attract the insects; and Fellini's selection of café society as a central symbol of evil is vulgar and naive...
...horror with a screw-loose intensity seldom seen on screen since Emil Jannings went berserk in the last reel of The Blue Angel. What does it mean? Obviously nothing favorable to Poland's Communist society, but one guess is as good as another. One guess: in an evil world, virtue is an unbearable burden...