Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some observers view School Committee affairs as a morality play in which the CCA members are the good guys and the Independents, the forces of evil. Last year's "Stokeley affair" was a good instance of this polarization. The Independents voted not to let the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats use the City's Rindge Tech auditorium for a speech by Stokely Carmichael. All three CCA members defended Carmichael's right of free speech and forced two votes on the issue, both of which they lost. The votes fell the same way in a bitter battle last winter over 13 budget...
...PYRAMID, by William Golding. In this ostensibly simple tale of a bright lad who sacrifices principles to scale the ladder of the British class system, Golding explores his favorite theme-that all men inherit the evil of their ancestry...
...thoughtful pieces on foreign policy, Royster shows the same sense of measure. He cautions the U.S. to steer a course somewhere between despair and euphoria, to know its limits yet act decisively within them, to be conscious of the gradations of evil in the world without feeling compelled to try to eradicate them all. "A blind faith in total victory," he writes, "can be fatal because it assumes that evil exists in the world only by sufferance, that all it takes to destroy it is godlike power...
...ambition, not laxness. The heavy-handed Christian symbolism-Luke is several times shown in crucified positions and has some unconvincing monologues with the God he doesn't believe in-is not only labored but out of style with the rest of the film. Rosenberg's treatment of evil, personified by the brutal prison guards, descends too often from portrayal to caricature. Still, there is enough left in the old theme to make Luke a prisoner of grace, and a picture of chilling dramatic power...
...couldn't just get married like that, with those seven princesses waiting around, so the prince cleverly decided to organize a dishwashing contest, the winner to get his hand. Naturally, most of the princesses fainted dead away at the sight of all those dirty dishes, except for one evil and efficient type with a gift for sabotage, who finally won-but only temporarily, of course...