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Word: evil (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peaceful dissenter. He condemns the evil elements of modern society, not society itself. He rejects the outmoded and cumbersome methods of our institutions of higher education, not education itself He believes in the ultimate power of reasonable debate to ameliorate the human condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 27, 1968 | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...right inventions came from everywhere -including the unconscious. He thinks he may have got the idea of the shark-stomached Snapping Turtle Turks because of a Turk he knew who once forced an indigestible Turkish meal on him. He considers the Flying Glove an apt symbol of evil, since "gloves are worn by criminals and therefore stand for action in a secret, malevolent way." He feels that his inclusion of the mechanical soccer players in the Eleanor Rigby sequence was inspired by his loathing of the game at which his father used to be a star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: NEW MAGIC IN ANIMATION | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

Just as the stream of self-conscious ness winds down to a thin treacle, the film-and the car-take flight. Caractacus spins a tale of adventure, with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as the hero. The car soars and sails, evil Baron Bomburst (Gert Frobe) covets it and unleashes comic villains to kidnap its owner. Instead, they get Grandpa. Off he goes to Vulgaria, a horrid land where children are forbidden. Underneath the baron's castle, the banished boys and girls have hidden for years, waiting for salvation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Chug-Chug, Mug-Mug | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...Evil has fallen on bad days. In an age of H-bombs and death camps, its influence in the world has hardly diminished. But men's ways of thinking and talking about evil have altered. The fine old dramatic metaphors, from the Serpent in the Garden to Gustave Doré's sulfurous Lucifer, have lost their power to terrify. Yet modern substitutes are equally unsatisfying. Social scientists reduce evil to data. Intellectuals expose its banality. The public seems able to consider the demonic only in the harmless guise of Rosemary's Baby. Like nearly everything these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Facing It | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

...intact. In the minds of many men in many lands, the Krupp name became synonymous with the cold pursuit of cash, steel and power, indeed, with the shame and fortune of Germany itself. Early in the century, H. G. Wells could place the dynasty "at the very core of evil." At Nuremberg in 1945, the judges condemned the head of the house of Krupp for "crimes against humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blood and Irony | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

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