Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wise and good, but his frequent epileptic fits seem paradoxical to his moral eloquence. In the film, the Idiot is more a character of insight and candor. His fits have a mystical quality and come on him when he is confronted by someone seeking a solution to life in evil. Amidst the cunning Russian aristocracy he is an unconscious link with the metaphysical, and Gerard Philipe's performance falters only when he lends more melancholy to his lines than poetic innocence. Edwige Feuillere portrays the bold yet sensitive women who first seeks happiness in the coarseness of materialism and then...
...next 50 years will prove that human nature is tough and unyielding to a high degree," he said in part. "Neither the forces of good nor the forces of evil will preyail to the extent that has been prophesied by some writers in the past few years...
...good job, excepting only the spots in which he unfortunately choose to accentuate the play's pointless violence. Certainly the pace did not slacken at any point under Mr. Gitter's hand. For only brief moments, during which Mr. Gregory and Mr. Aaron decided that communism is basically evil, did boredom creep onto the stage...
...anonymous author). The movie tells of a lonely English teenager, Olivia, who is sent to a French finishing school. From the first day, sad little Olivia joins in the twitter of happiness that seems to fill her new world. She is too young to understand the possibilities of evil that...
...fact that the people of European stock have "become aware of the narrowness and danger of their circumstances: the threatening sea, the enclosing mountains, and behind them the sullen weight of an awaking continent." Storekeeper Fluit, for example, is "gravely ill" with the conviction that "man, nature and evil powers" are all plotting against him, and that to survive he must be "sullen, suspicious and constantly on guard." His friends and neighbors feel much the same way, but they have discovered that the best antidote to gnawing fear is to fix their minds on a favorite obsession...