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Word: evilness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gates of Paris (Filmsonor; Lopert). Rene Clair is a moralist who never moralizes. In this picture, for instance, his moral is a weighty one. Evil is not evil, Clair says, if it does good; in real life the absolutes are relative. Yet the point is made lightly, and it hits home with benevolent accuracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...Evil is represented by a Marseille tough (Henri Vidal) who is dashingly good-looking but sort of dumb. He takes it on the lam to Paris in a stolen car, falls asleep at the wheel, cracks up, and hides out in a shack on the outskirts of Paris. There he is discovered by the neighborhood bum (Pierre Brasseur), a charming, aging lunk who drinks all night, sleeps till noon, lives off his ancient, hardworking mother, and sulks because nobody loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 3, 1958 | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...destined pair exchanged confidences. Blushing Miss Howard confessed that her life was not free from stain: an evil man had taken advantage of her sweet nature-with the result that, though only 23, she had one illegitimate son in the fashionable London district of St. John's Wood and at least ?1,000,000 in the kitty. His eyes sparkling, Prince Louis forgave Miss Howard. He himself, he confessed, was not without sin. While incarcerated at Ham, he had fathered two sons of the jailer's daughter-"the fruits of captivity," he murmured. Then he threw himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Girl with the Moneybags | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

...Problem of Evil" will be the theme of the third annual Ministers' Institute, to be held Thursday at Andover Hall of the Divinity School. Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, will deliver the annual Ingersoll Lecture, entitled "Greek Ideal of Immortality," in the morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Will Participate In Divinity School Institute | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

Douglas Horton, Dean of the Divinity School, will speak at the Alumni Dinner at Harkness Commons. Leading the lectures and discussions on the problem of evil will be Richard R. Niebuhr '47, assistant professor of Theology, Robert H. Pfeiffer, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental Languages, and Paul J. Tillich, University Professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professors Will Participate In Divinity School Institute | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

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