Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gees, yes--all over. I seen three guys fight over a man once. Those shoe stores get the most people, though." He went on for a while against the forces of Evil, particularly cobblers and No Trespassing signs in Harvard entries. Trying to change the subject, I asked if shoe shining was profitable. "Sometimes. Some weeks I get five or ten dollars. Not always. I make lunch money--not too much...
...give brilliant performances. But the dozens of moments are not cumulative. Except as a history of a master-and-slave relationship, of an Artie who, devoid of normal feeling, must subsist on diseased sensation, and a Judd slowly driven by sexual feeling into becoming Artie's companion in evil-except, in other words, for what has happened before Compulsion begins-its materials permit no inner development. Balked of psychological progression, or even moral catharsis. Compulsion can only-during its very protracted trial scene-fall back on sociological debate. For a Clarence Darrow, defending Leopold and Loeb, such debate...
Fallen Figures. In most of the stories there is no either-or solution but only a questioning maybe. God is ambivalent, man contorted both in soul and action, and evil often wears the face of good. Thus, in Copenhagen Season, the very strength of a soldier's love loses him the prize he wants; in A Country Tale, a proud nobleman is forced to his knees at the foot of a murderer who mysteriously may be his alter ego; in Echoes, a prima donna finds her lost voice only to lose all hope of using it. The characters...
...recent years, the Puritan conscience of the College has tried to make up for the first mistake of one of its graduates by de-emphasizing the game. This is a Good Thing. However, the ticket business has just become more and more Evil, creeping in to undermine the healthy vigor of intellectual life. Fine young men who would otherwise be studious and Good now spend much of their time trying to get a date at least ten days before each game and the rest trying to remember that ticket applications are due "before 5 P.M., Wednesday." For those who fail...
...scales, and sadly points a shaming finger. Yet to be discovered is the lesser devil compounding the crime by tugging on the weight devil's tail. In an age of crusades and pilgrimages, when Christians intensely fought the struggle between the legions of Christ and the forces of evil from the age of reason until the very moment of death, the note of humor in the scene probably was lost on most of the people who knelt by the altar...