Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such College standbys as Humanities 4--Ideas of Good and Evil in Western Literature--Natural Sciences 4--The Nature and Growth of the Physical Sciences--are given as extension courses by the same professors who teach them to undergraduates. Peculiar to the extension plan is a basic course in botany which takes four years to complete. Each year's work is complete in itself, however...
...Agreeing, in effect, with the Supreme Court decision in The Miracle case, which upheld the cinema's right to free speech (TIME, June 2), he found that the censorship law violated both the state and federal constitutions. The Ohio law, said Judge Wiley, "is of itself a greater evil than the possibility of evil against which the statute was designed to protect...
Cathy was a vicious slut but Adam didn't know that. Steinbeck has made her a dish of distilled evil, one of the most implausible women in fiction's gallery. As a young, sweet-looking girl she had murdered her parents, burned the family home and skipped off to Boston. There she became the mistress of a man who ran a string of brothels, drove him mad with jealousy and was almost beaten to death by him. When she crawled...
...Cathy was good at it, and Steinbeck seems to have a fine time explaining her trade. Naturally, Cathy poisoned the brothelkeeper. took over the place, and racked up a lot of money. But she got her comeuppance. Arthritis, and fear that her sins would be found out. broke her evil spirit and she died by her own hand. But not until her shocked, teen-age sons (the second Cain & Abel team) and gentle Adam have found out-a dozen years late-what she has been...
...whether as a novel about pioneers in a new country or just men & women working out their private, earthly fates, East of Eden is too blundering and ill-defined to make its story point. That point, says Steinbeck, is "the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil." East of Eden has over-generous portions of both, but a novelist who knows what he wants channels them, he doesn't spill them...