Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Schlondorff tries all too obviously to point up parallels between the violence of the academy and life in Hitler's Germany -as when Torless rather ponderously testifies at a school-board inquiry into Basini's death that "there is no boundary between a good world and an evil world: they run together and very normal people can spread terror." Otherwise, Young Torless, adapted from the novel by Robert Musil, is a perfect-and perfectly chilling-evocation of the underside of a vanished...
...really wanted, she kept saying, was to be able to return to her beloved husband, Indonesia's deposed President Sukarno, 66, but the forces of evil have conspired to keep them apart. While she waited, Ratna Sari Dewi, 27, the Bung's fifth wife, has been living in Tokyo for ten months, but now even Japan has become unbearable. "What with all that smear about me in Japanese weeklies, I haven't had a day of repose," complained Dewi, disclosing that she had filed suit against the publisher of a novel about a former nightclub hostess...
...cinema typecasting, perhaps not unrelated to Frank Sinatra's new chairmanship of the American-Italian Anti-Defamation League. As Lee and his soulmate sister-in-law (Angie Dickinson) battle their way up through the syndicate hierarchy in pursuit of his $93,000, it turns out that the evil big shots seem neither to have been born in Sicily nor to be afflicted with five o'clock shadow, but bear such names as Brewster, Carter and Fairfax. The biggest mobster of them all (Carroll O'Connor) is downright refined. Arriving at his hideout, he grumbles that the shrubbery...
According to Pike, the traditional authoritative sources for Christian doctrine are all suspect. The Bible, for example, is not only shot through with "superstition, sheer evil and flat contradiction," but did not even exist in its present form until several centuries after the founding of Christianity. The bishop similarly dismisses the infallibility of church councils on the ground, among others, that Christian denominations disagree violently on how many there really were; Roman Catholics accept 21 ecclesiastical synods as ecumenical councils, the Greek Orthodox only seven. He also contends that the creeds did not take shape until several centuries after Christ...
...sightseers tramping its cluttered avenues, San Francisco's Chinatown has always displayed a pungent blend of yang and yin. Those intertwined opposites-good and evil, sweet and sour, light and dark-describe not only Chinese philosophy but also the inner contradictions of a district whose neon signs and tourist bustle mask a swarming, sweatshop world of long hours, low pay, hard work and fear. For all its outward ambiance, the largest Chinese enclave outside Asia is one of America's most wretched slums...