Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republicans are conservative and in opposition; the way back to constitutional government requires that we place our faith in God, country and self, not liberalism and material wealth swapped out for basic freedoms. Reagan is a clean top choice. Rockefeller as a vice-presidential candidate would be a necessary evil to carry votes of the misled...
...VOLCANO OF SMOLDERING PASSION!, the view inside is little more than a Playboy peep show, less glossy but just as sexless. Lust is a popeyed man ogling a barmaid's cleavage, virginity a lacquered ex-stripper trying to look like a wide-eyed schoolgirl caught up in the evil ways of the big city. Usually, there are only random glimpses of breasts and bottoms, although lately the nudies have been edging closer to the limits of pornography with a rash of "sadie-massies" that drag in homosexuality, flagellation, voyeurism, lesbianism and assorted orgies. Among some aficionados of the nudies...
Natural Arena. Styron calls The Confessions of Nat Turner not a historical novel but a "meditation on histo ry." There are echoes in it of Melville's Benito Cereno, a tale of a Negro slave rebellion at sea. Like Melville, Styron is fascinated by the evil of slavery and its inevitable connection with violence and corruption. The novels of the Puritanical giants of the 19th century were propelled by the driving force of implacable fate; so is Nat Turner. But here Styron makes his own departure. In Melville, Hawthorne and Twain, there is always at least a memory...
Inevitably, Styron will be compared to Faulkner. He lacks Faulkner's almost fatalistic sense that evil is part of the human condition; he also lacks his facility for creating a whole stageful of memorable characters. Styron's achievement is that his one towering figure dominates the entire book. But for both writers, the land is the natural arena for terror, and not since the lynching of Joe Christmas in Faulkner's Light in August has savagery been so harrowingly described. Nat's blood, like Joe's, is part of the American soil...
...these two against trend spotters and opinion makers. Each gave fictional form to contrary views of life -Salinger maintaining that youth, innocence and grace are corrupted by the cruel conventions of a corrupt society, and Golding demonstrating in fable after fable that man's heart in herits the evil of his ancestry. Wrote Golding in an essay: "Man produces evil as a bee produces honey...