Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such a prospect did not bother Nehru. The pledge of good will was the thing, he insisted. "Even though there may be some evil behind it, saying the right thing and trying to act up to it will gradually do away with that evil in the mind," explained the Prime Minister. To push his Five Principles, Nehru will soon take off for Peking to see Mao Tse-tung. On his way, he will display his nonaggression samples to Burma's Prime Minister U Nu in Rangoon, also stop in Hanoi (the Communist Viet Minh will be installed there...
...Conversation in this country has fallen upon evil days . . . It is drowned out in singing commercials by the world's most productive economy that has so little to say for itself it has to hum it. It is hushed and shushed in dimly lighted parlors by television audiences who used to read, argue, and even play bridge, an old-fashioned card game requiring speech. It is shouted down by devil's advocates, thrown into disorder by points of order . . . subdued by soft-voiced censors." To Griswold the disorderly noises issuing from the human race may lead to ugly...
...Tenor Peter Pears sang the prologue ("It is a curious story. I have it written in faded ink . . ."). From then on. the plot followed the outlines of the Henry James chiller about a young governess in an English country house who attempts to protect her young charges from the evil doings of a pair of phantoms. The opera's 16 scenes flashed quickly across the stage., building awareness of horror as the red-haired Quint appeared in the tower, the green-face Miss Jessel was seen by the lake, and the ghosts chanted diabolically to the children at night...
...newsstands of the U.S. and Canada, more comic books are sold than any other type of magazine. About a quarter of the 80 million comic books that readers buy each month are known as "horror comics," bearing such titles as Tormented, The Thing, Web of Evil. Typical plot: a gravedigger falls in love with a beautiful girl, kills her in a fit of passion and then makes love to the corpse. When rigor mortis sets in, the gravedigger is strangled in the dead girl's arms. Such gory plots and pictures, which brought on a congressional investigation of horror...
Laughing to Live. Rude bits of action interrupt these yarns. Amid flying swords and javelins, a robber tyrant takes Sita for his spoil, and the once dutiful wife rather likes it. In a war of comic confusion, Rama conquers the tyrant, wins Sita back, and, when his own evil father dies, resumes his rightful throne. The moral of it all? Rama asks as much of Poet Valmiki: "Is there anything that you believe is real?" Replies the poet (and the answer is obviously that of Hindu-Irish Author Menen): "Certainly, Rama. There are three things which are real: God, human...