Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Author Gaddis also intends The Recognitions as a spiritual rebuke ("I wonder, when I step out of doors, how the past can tolerate us"). Unfortunately, the best he can do for a symbol of evil is to trade in Melville's white whale for Manhattan's Madison Avenue. Like other literary specialists in damnation, William Gaddis has held a seashell to his ear and convinced himself that just about all humanity is drowning...
...does it tie in with the South African firm of Lindel-baum & Co., wine and spirit importers? Thanks to the throb of distant tom-toms (which seem to be saying Mau Mau), the least alert reader can guess that the spirits imported by evil Mr. Lindelbaum are more vodka and voodoo than honest Scotch. South African-born Novelist van der Post (Venture to the Interior) has taken his theme from French Philosopher-Sociologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl: "Le reve est le vrai dieu des Primitifs [The dream is the real god of primitive peoples]." The Russians know that the far-flung...
Alain Cluny and Arletty are delightfully evil as the envoys, and Jacques Prevet's script and Marcel carne's direction make Cluny's defection from the diabolic cause later in the Picture seem natural enough-although the viewer may at first be left wondering if this is not just another evil ruse. Satan himself, played by Jules Berry, enters the feudal scene with gusto, elegant clothes, and a most attractive cackle of glee that make his part something out of the ordinary. His expert dematerializations are more to the credit of the cameraman...
...spirit is as an acronistic as expecting Sherlock Holmes to track Dr. Moriarity with radar and an all-point bulletin. Still, Guinness and Peter Finch, as Flambeau, do their best to ignore the modern trappings of police and society, and to behave like brilliant amateurs, who are good and evil (respectively) for the joy of it, not because they are sociological case histories...
...unworldy stranger prepares the way for the confidence-man, the master-duper. Silently, the stranger scrawls some words on a slate and holds it up for the passengers to see: "Charity thinketh no evil," "Chanty endureth all things," "Charity never faileth." Close by, the ship's barber opens his shop for the day and he too hangs up a sign: "No trust...