Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meaningful chains of related imagery. He manages not only to realize his major characters and make their destructive interrelations both plausible and touching, but also to expose through visual analysis a contemporary emotional tendency as real as it is dangerous: Sally is a destroyer not because she is evil, but because she is inert, drawn constantly toward blank-faced sleep and nameless dreams. She is an ambulatory case of emotional paralysis, and throughout Sally's Hounds, she infects everyone she touches with that disease...
John Osborne's Look Back in Anger sent crowds of inspired Britishers to their typewriters. Osborne invented the Angry Young Man: his Jimmy Porter rants about the evil in everybody--especially the upper class. Arnold Wesker takes up the topic of class conflict in Chips With Everything. He pushes a well-meaning aristocrat into a group of peasants and concludes that amalgamation isn't possible. The hero of Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs has Jimmy Porter-like qualities -- he knocks the Establishment, he bruises his dearest friends, he demands to be idolized...
...beginning he had thought of the war as a necessary evil to protect a parliamentary democracy from the Communists; he had seen American activity in Vietnam as a kind of over-flow of Theodore Roosevelt energy. But then he started asking himself how the Viet Cong managed to survive if they didn't have a popular base in South Vietnam. He questioned the U.S. military assumption that only the South Vietnamese Army was mature enough to govern south Vietnam. "Being a patriotic American I felt that people should have the right to determine their own destiny and that in fact...
Sloan now feels that the war is wrong, but that many of the anti-war criticisms about U.S. military methods are misplaced. "It's not that our military tactics are deliberately evil," Sloan says, "in fact the U.S. is bending over backwards to prevent civilian casual- ties. The war is wrong not because of its tactics but because it is being waged against innocent people...
...American Mathematical Society which is attempting to get the effort-reporting requirement "romoved or changed," according to Mackey, is alone no longer. Very few people in the scientific community here are in favor of effort-reporting. At the very best it is considered to be a necessary evil...