Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tenth Man. Paddy Chayefsky's play-intellectually deficient but emotionally valid-about the fight to save a young girl's soul from an evil spirit...
...have seen the English stage version that has played for several years in Manhattan's Greenwich Village will notice differences; the film, for some reason, has fewer songs, and its mockery of capitalism is more savagely direct. The stage play rewards the outlaw Mack the Knife for his evil deeds merely with a title and a pension; in the film. Mackie Messer (Rudolph Forster) becomes the director of a bank. As Peachum's beggars prepare to break up a coronation parade (Threepenny Opera owes its inspiration to John Gay's Beggar's Opera, and the scene...
...Johnson's renowned political cunning showed forth, too. A greying 51, veteran of 23 years in Congress, he pointed up boyish-looking, 43-year-old Jack Kennedy's comparative youth and inexperience by warning that the "forces of evil," meaning international Communism, "will have no mercy for innocence, no gallantry toward inexperience." With another sly jab, Johnson hit at the Kennedy drive to corral convention delegates: "I would not presume to tell my fellow Democrats that I am the only man they should consider for this job or to demand that any delegate or delegation vote...
...Dean of Harvard Law School Erwin N. Griswold, Red Cross President Alfred M. Gruenther, and Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman John J. McCloy. "We have a choice between timidity and accepting the responsibility of world leadership," said Chairman Robert Dechert, former Defense Department counsel. "As it stands now, the fundamental evil of the Reservation is that it has provided an excuse for saying that not even the U.S., the leader of the free world, is wholehearted in its support of international judicial processes...
...ideal foil is the ponderous Caliban of Earle Hyman (the only performer retained from the Festival's first Tempest in 1955, when he played the Boatswain). Caliban symbolizes evil, low I.Q., and rebellion towards authority: but he is a far more complex character than Ariel (and than usually portrayed), and it is from his lips that the word "grace" eventually issues. Hyman captures most of the complexity. When he emits those horrible words, "Burn but his books!"--especially odious for those of us who recall Senator McCarthy--the b's burst like bombs (significantly, Caliban's language is liberally peppered...