Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berry-berry runs too deep. When his girl becomes pregnant, he clears out and hits the road again, carelessly denying blame for the tragedy that follows. Yet the short vacation he took from his inner evil created something of value. Having tasted the richness of family love, Clint and his parents are not likely to turn away from it again...
...religious system are no longer the mental stability it may bring or its possibility of social acceptance, the doctrines it shares with other religions, or its sweet reasonableness. On the contrary, the very elements of Judaism which but yesterday were in ill repute-our unique chosenness, the reality of evil, the deadly seriousness and unconditional demands of the life of service to God-have today been reinstated...
...fact that religion is "not all 'green pastures' and 'still waters'" is clear to "any serious reader of the Bible." Nowhere is the existentialism of the Old Testament better demonstrated than in the Book of Job. Job dares to demand of God an explanation of evil; his "comforters" put forward their rational arguments, and at the end Job-without an explanation, but with the existential experience of God-turns from questioning to wondering silence: "I will lay mine hand upon my mouth...
...contains such orthodox dogma as Jesus' virgin birth, miracles, divinity and (in forecast) resurrection. But Kazantzakis' Christ is far more man than God-a man torn, like Kazantzakis himself, between flesh and spirit, dark and light. "Within me," he wrote, "are the dark immemorial forces of the Evil One, human and prehuman; within me too are the luminous forces, human and prehuman, of God-and my soul is the arena where these two armies have clashed and met. The anguish has been intense...
Author Lee, 34, an Alabaman, has written her first novel with all of the tactile brilliance and none of the preciosity generally supposed to be standard swamp-warfare issue for Southern writers. The novel is an account of an awakening to good and evil, and a faint catechistic flavor may have been inevitable. But it is faint indeed; Novelist Lee's prose has an edge that cuts through cant, and she teaches the reader an astonishing number of useful truths about little girls and about Southern life. (A notable one:"Naming people after Confederate generals makes slow steady drinkers...