Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whole film is set in a world apart--a world of evil spirits, of voices in the air and tiny flashing lights. Burton and Richard McWhorter (the codirectors) should have tried--at the very least--to show how Faustus is gradually cut off from the other world--the world of his friends, of his servants and of God. But this other world fades away, and we are left with Richard Burton in the midst of hellions and sour pleasures. McWhorter and Burton should have set this off by showing more of the happy, normal life that presumably surrounds Faustus...
Jordan's freewheeling paraphrase tries to catch the colloquial, contemporary quality of the Pauline letters. As translated in the King James version, Romans 2:9 vows "tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile." In Jordan's phrasing, the threat comes out: "Hellfire and brimstone upon every son of a gun who works for the wrong, whether he's a 'superior' white or a Negro." Romans 1:25 excoriates those "who changed the truth of God into a lie"; this becomes, in Jordanese...
...wrist movements. In practice sessions with the Academy's student orchestra, he makes them stand still and beat time only with the right hand, keeping the arm tied to a chair or held out stiffly in front of them. He teaches that the conductor is "a necessary evil" who can be crucial to the preparation and rehearsal of a score but should be as unobtrusive as possible in performance. Frequently he quotes the ironical advice of Strauss, who was his mentor: "Go up to the podium and don't disturb the orchestra...
...producer of goods, Galbraith argues, the system works very well, and he scoffs at those who look upon bigness as inherently evil. Yet he does find one overriding fault: the present system puts too much emphasis on goods?washing machines, cars and gadgets?and not enough on beauty and man's search for higher values. In a sense, Galbraith is raising anew, as he did in The Affluent Society, the question of priorities and how wealth is to be divided. Instead of working 40 hours a week in order to be able to buy the full panoply of gadgets...
...illegitimate son of a Glasgow tearoom waitress, Ian Brady had a gift for making even his tastes in the varieties of evil seem a cliché. As a boy, he buried a cat alive, collected Nazi souvenirs, stole shillings from gas meters around Manchester. After early crushes on such villains as Josef Kramer, commandant of the Belsen concentration camp, and Harry Lime of The Third Man, Ian finally met his true soul mate in the Marquis de Sade-a literary encounter that Williams recklessly compares to Keats's stumbling upon Chapman's Homer...