Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gehenna is a short, impressive interior monologue that dallies with madness, and The Dark City is a skillfully done story of a happy father who, without abandoning his happiness, has a moment's clear vision of evil. Two other stories - The Last Visit, concerned with adultery, and Mr. Arcularis, which chillingly deals with the no man's land between life and death - are bravely and successfully ended in the O. Henry manner. These are the author's best, and they are a pleasure to read; few literary telescopes show the dark side of the moon as vividly...
India's newspapers grumbled at this "blot upon our escutcheon," and demanded "a clean and speedy sweep of this evil" from Indian soil. It may not be easy: most slave-owning NEFA tribesmen firmly believe that, no matter how wicked a man may be, his riches will accompany him from this life to the next. Thus, if he owns slaves in this world, he will have slaves to attend him in heaven...
...life itself. Their work shapes the life of every human presently inhabiting the planet, and will influence the destiny of generations to come. Statesmen and savants, builders and even priests are their servants; at a time when science is at the apogee of its power for good or evil, they are the Men of the Year...
...continue to go wrong by itself." This may happen in human cancers, too, and since viruses carry only small packets of genetic material, improved molecular biology may prevent them from starting cancers, or may even reform the lawlessly growing cells that have been led by viruses into evil ways...
...Virgin Spring (in Swedish). Ingmar Bergman's beautifully filmed, holy if horrible Gothic myth in which good and evil, Christian and pagan powers collaborate in the continuous nativity of love...