Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marguerite Tarrant portrays the freelove femme of this item with considerable charm and not much evil, which lends frivolous class to the proceedings. It's a big part played effectively, and she is not the hardest to look at of actresses. James M. Swan deserves credit, too, for a vaguely sensitive approach to his role of a playwright who takes away Miss Tarrant, loses her, then gats her back along with somebody else, Richard Dozier, who had Miss Tarrant, lost her to Swan, took her away again, then got her back along with somebody else, Swan, etc. Dozier, who seems...
...mixture of jargon, cant, vogue words, and loose syntax"). Higher Learning (he could find only "an immense amount of Lower Learning" in the U.S.), and the Ph.D. racket (TIME, Nov. 25, 1957). In American Scholar Barzun castigates his latest victim: detective stories, which, he says, have fallen on evil days, turning increasingly into "novels of haze and daze...
...Good Woman is a preposterous "parable" that demonstrates you can't reconcile good and evil. The flame of goodness, however flickering, never expires. Yet evil is everywhere; so pervasive is evil that it lurks in goodness itself--in the blundering unwittingness of goodness. Specifically, Bertolt Brecht has written the story of an angelic prostitute (you never meet any other kind, on the stage, at least) who finds the wordly threats to her integrity so great she must mask herself as a loud-mouthed male. Thus better equipped to operate amid the avarice and lecheries of people, she can more effectively...
Science Student Rebours lived for a month last summer with a wine-soaked old biffin (rubbish forager) named Jean-not. He shared a filthy hut at the rear of a cafe with Jeannot and the biffin's sidekick, an evil-tempered, alcoholic tramp named Tintin, who has since died of delirium tremens. Rebours' total expense account of about $19.50 included 14 Camembert cheeses, 20 loaves of bread, six helpings of fried potatoes bought to celebrate Jeannot's discovery of some marketable shoes, plus 190 glasses of wine downed to keep up with his tipsy pals. But just...
...President, speaking to a relatively similar audience, had used the same theme, but with a more positive tone. To him there seemed to be no evil inherent in neutralism; in fact, he stressed the necessity for strength in the new countries, not the necessity of their joining Western military alliances...