Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orgy is to be expected sooner or later. Gog's orgy comes promptly and seems to be under pre-Christian Druidic auspices, though the Marquis de Sade and Herr von Sacher-Masoch are present in postures appropriate to their eponymous status. Gog meets his spiritual twin, an evil ogre called Magog. He also finds a bastard brother, and eventually learns his own name, Arthur George Griffin. A baleful woman named Maire, who has made several attempts on his life, turns out to have been his wife, and she dotes on him because he is so perfectly persecutable...
Sinclair, who took five years in the writing of Gog (apart from a biography of President Harding and a historical study of Prohibition), has not quite made his purpose clear. Speculation suggests that in Gog and Magog he is trying to make explicit the evil and good in man, a Manichaean notion that influenced Robert Louis Stevenson in writing Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A more subtle Jungian notion is that Gog (i.e., man) is not only himself but also the sum of the past of the whole race. The naked amnesiac on the shores of Scotland must relive...
...girl, is cheated of his winnings, gets drafted, sells his car, and shrugs. In this gentle first novel, told with a fine ear for adolescent patois. Author Matthews, 42, who teaches English at Ohio University, offers something of a literary atavism: a story about pure innocence that encounters pure evil and couldn't care less...
...ruler is shown up as stupid, foolish, ineffective, or evil, Fairbank maintains, then the moral basis of his authority is undermined and he may lose power...
...over loudspeakers. In the first and third, they are not visible at all; and in the second they are represented by vaguely moving black shapes scarcely perceptible on the almost totally dark stage. This approach serves to increase the impact of the Witches as pervasive and ubiquitous symbols of evil. Only one of the voices is that of a witch, however; the other two are those of war-locks, since Houseman uses men's voices...