Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draft has never been popular, but has long been tolerated as a necessary evil. It is more insidious than that. Conscription is a totalitarian concept, out of place in a liberal society except in time of national peril. Forcing a man to devote two years of his life to servitude of the state should not be dismissed as a legitimate and unchallengeable exercise of governmental authority...
...strong on Confucianist milk. Why not work over a dead man-if that is what he deserves from a history he malevolently affected? Surely the point is that the author of this filthy act of vampirism deserves the contempt not only of those who would speak no evil of the dead, but of those who applaud such lonely acts of disinterested heroism as were performed by the social philanthropist whose name once graced your masthead...
...play. The debate pitted the Puritan ethic against the pragmatism of cold-war survival. It matched the conspiratorial methods necessarily practiced by intelligence agencies against the emotionalism of young Americans who worship honesty. It aroused the outrage of many in the academic community who-mistakenly-regard CIA as an evil manipulator of foreign policy. And the furor showed again how readily Americans, who, while seldom acknowledging the quiet and generally successful performance of their intelligence community, will howl their indignation at the first hint of misjudgment...
...Milne must have slept ever so peacefully. Probably no one in the past 200 years had a tamer sense of evil. The meanest creatures he could conceive of were the stoats, ferrets and weasels he put on stage in a dramatic adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. And they're absolutely adorable...
...House production, it is the technical side of the show which does most to sustain the humor. Suzy Colgate's makeup is animalian without being grotesque. Toad's mouth and eyes are precisely that (though some credit must be given to the natural bent of Sansone's mouth); evil animals properly wear black masks. Electa Kane's costume are rich, correct (though her triumph--a weasel disguised as a notebook-paper-eared hare--is rightfully neither) and show off brightly under Steve Nightingale's clean, clear lighting which even does wonders for the slightly unsettling coloration of the overly chunky...