Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though Diem was born in a straw hut on his father's estate near Hue (where his ailing, 87-year-old mother still lives behind a wall to keep off evil spirits), he is of the upper class, and he talks without self-consciousness of "the little people." He is proud of his Vietnamese heritage: "We are a country of principles, an old country, a country built village by village. Viet Nam is a solid thing . . ." And he is reluctant to change it, but: "Sometimes I think we Asians are too reserved, talk too much by nuance. We ought...
...Duke did not come quit so well. Richard Chaffee confused too often the sophisticated evil of the Duke with the organic writhings of a monster. Ruth Emerson, as his niece, the Princess Saralinda, contrasted warmth and serenity with the Duke's icy fingers nicely when she first came on. But she did not bend as Thurber expanded her into the floating symbol of molested maidens...
Probably because they were not called upon to represent pure virtue or pure evil, the rest of the dancers were good. Karen Wilk wore the mask of hark and skulked about with the mystery necessary for her ultimate metamorphosis. Also part of the palace menage, the guards did what was required, particularly Eleanor Sutherland, who did more. As good were the tavern people...
...South Carolina's Governor George Timmerman Jr. contributed a remarkable definition to the controversy over desegregation of U.S. schools. Desegregation, said he, is "designed to lynch the character of a fourth of our nation ... It is contrary to the divine order of things. Only an evil mind could conceive it. Only a foolish mind can accept...
...with him. Dan becomes a bodyguard for a gambling czar, kills a man, takes over a bookie ring of his own. He all but forgets about reporting as he becomes infatuated with the world of crime -with its sense of power, its money that produces a kind of evil freedom, its masculinity ("The deferential male is an object of derision to criminal woman"). Much of this first novel's wayward charm lies in its passing epigrammatic remarks. Sample, on a TV M.C.: "He was a matador who played human beings instead of bulls." On reporters: "They have, every...