Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Although it still obeys the Blue Laws to the extent that it goes to bed at midnight on Saturdays and will permit no theatricals, gaming or drunken roistering on Sundays, it still allows (as anyone who enjoys walking Washington Street after 10 p.m. will know) a surreptitious kind of evil...
Nonetheless, Boston is not all evil, being, at the least, free from the "three great annoyances of Woolves, Rattle-snakes and Musketoes." William Wood divulged this attraction in 1634 as a bait for future settlers. They came: they pushed their cows about to create Boston's streets, and later died, filling an astoundingly large number of graveyards...
There are plenty of harmless--not to say innocuous--but still pleasant aspects to the evil old lady. A ride on the MTA will take you to most of them at 20 cents a shot; cars are not cows and therefore virtually useless; Boston was not made for them...
...Revels Ended. Shakespeare's own imagination invariably sweetened itself, for in the long run he never saw only the dark side of man-or woman. He retired to Stratford around 1611, his sense of evil seemingly muted, as is suggested by the enchanted isles, fairy-tale plots, masques and marvels of the last plays. For his final comment on man's existence in The Tempest (1611), Shakespeare returned instinctively to the stage with its quality of make-believe...
...Astor Place riot, in which 22 people were killed. But in the U.S., too, touring companies were beset by moralizers, and as they played the Bard in gold-rush camps and over billiard rooms, the actors placated indignant religious sectarians by billing Othello as "a moral dialogue depicting the evil effects of jealousy...