Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instance, they believe that a Third World War is absolutely inevitable. By so believing, they do believe that we shall take the side of the United States as the side of good as against the side of evil. It's a sort of a good and evil, a sort of a "robbers and cops" game--the cop being America and the robbers being 'Russia or China if you wish...
...students must be precocious and they must be premature. And I don't see any evil in it. Of course, I would not say that students always are right in their propositions and their criticisms, but I think it is important that they proclaim their nonconformism...
...Indian society, "knowledge" and "ignorance" replaced the Christian concepts of "good" and "evil." Those who had not yet achieved wisdom and self-awareness were considered young rather than evil souls. The Brahmans, irrespective of the austerity of their own lives, held that society should provide "youthful" men with the opportunity for full employment of all sensual pleasures. They believed that complete knowledge of pleasure and sensual gratification was necessary to bring ultimate self-awareness and the eventual abandonment of physical pleasures. The acquisition of wealth (artha) and the enjoyment of sense pleasure (kama) -- contained within the broad limits...
...picture, was a box-office hit. Legend has it hthat soon afterwards, the head of Warner Brothers' "B" picture unit went to his writers saying, "Write me Tiger Shark with a circus setting" or "Do Tiger Shark with airplanes." Hollywood knew that character and plot was the necessary evil that turned the uncommercial documentary into fairytale fiction and potential box-office gold. They also knew that a popular plot could be used again and again, as long as the costumes and the actors were different...
Given that script formula is a standard and perhaps valid dramatic device to facilitate the presentation of exciting material, Grand Prix's evil is not so much that it is an old-fashioned formula picture, but that it bungles the job miserably and wallows for 2 1/2 of its 3 hours in its own plot complications. Arthur spends too much time on his dreary characters, barely managing to solve their problems and tie-up the loose ends for the finish. He introduces an English driver (Brian Bedford) who competes neurotically to break the track record of his dead brother...