Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ever since Eve offered Adam the apple," said she, "men have been unable to forgive us for being the first to discover the delights brought by the knowledge of good and evil. Women's rights is an unpopular theme, especially among mediocre men . . . When we ask for freedom, they call us unfeminine. My God, no. We are so feminine that we are fighting for the survival of our own sex." Seora Formica, elegantly gowned and coiffured, flashed a warm smile. "If we were still in the harems, I'd be the first to enjoy a life of leisure...
Tagging along close to the saint, however, is another investigator named Krampus, a creature as cynical and evil as the saint is good. Adorned with horns, a lizard-like tail and a hideous black tongue, Krampus makes it his business to scare the living daylights out of children. As little Hans or Fritz, cowering behind his mother's skirts, diffidently proclaims his virtue, Krampus rattles a huge chain or lashes the air with a switch in menacing disbelief. Sometimes he even comes equipped with a large basket in which to carry off young people whose stories clearly...
Last week, the head of Vienna's kindergarten system warned parents that the effect of an interview with Krampus might well leave their children scarred for life. In a leaflet called Krampus Is an Evil Man, Dr. Ernst Kotbauer urged that his children be freed of the frightful cross-examiner. A Vienna daily rushed to Dr. Kotbauer's support. "There is too much fear in the world already," it said, "unemployment, high taxes, not to mention the atom bomb. Let's begin by throwing out Krampus...
...manages to suggest that, underneath, it is an allegory about the international situation-or perhaps even about the whole human condition. One minute it sounds like any other he-went-thataway scenario, and the next minute the hero and the villain are murking around in long words about good & evil...
...Angeles officials and Hollywood celebrities turned out for a banquet honoring Greece's King Paul and Queen Frederika. Among the entertainers was talented, sexy Eartha Kitt, who sang songs such as Santa Baby and I Want to Be Evil. Next day, some of Los Angeles' councilmen were shocked. Said one: "It was low-level entertainment, repugnant to all decent citizens." Eartha's songs, according to Mayor Morris Poulson, were "filthy, risque and off-color." Eartha herself pleaded not guilty. Said she: "I can't understand it. I didn't think it was possible to shock...