Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because the students and intellectuals enjoy a special place in Communist regimes, providing the reservoir of skill and talent on which the bureaucracy continuously draws. A friend remembers Janos as saying before the revolt: "The workers and the peasants hate the regime because they know it is wrong and evil. They accept this and go on working. But we intellectuals are paid to lie about the regime. The workers know we lie, and so they hate us too. But the truth is we hate ourselves for lying...
Point No. 4 underlines the organization of evil and the disorganization of good. "Never before has Satan's banner been raised as Communism raises it today," says Lombardi. Point No. 5 stresses the need for "a Christian rebellion to match the rebellion of the Communists. That 472 million Catholics should continue to do nothing is an intolerable situation." No. 6 stresses that the moment for this Christian rebellion is now. Point No. 7 backs this up with papal authority. Point No. 8 calls for individual rededication, and Point No. 9 is repentance for man's individual and collective...
...next 13 years, Sade transmuted his sexual aberrations into a philosophical theory. Where Rousseau argued that man was naturally good, Sade declared with savage cynicism that man is naturally evil "in the delirium of his passions as much as when they are calm, and in both cases the ills of his fellows can become the source of execrable pleasure to him." He insisted that man fully realized himself only in the expression of his natural, i.e., cruel, impulses, that even sexual pleasure was most intense when it was accompanied by the infliction of pain. Society had no right to condemn...
...convention and law appealed to the romantics, and in 1843 famed Critic Sainte-Beuve wrote that Byron and Sade "are perhaps the two greatest inspirations of our moderns." Poet Charles Baudelaire admitted: "One always comes back to Sade, that is to say to the natural man, to explain evil." Swinburne declared the day would come "when statues will be erected to him in every city." French Poet Guillaume Apollinaire called him "the freest spirit that ever lived." Surrealists were fascinated by him, and Photographer Man Ray did an "imaginative portrait" of him with the Bastille in flames behind...
...tear begins, and for a while, as Big Tom cuts recklessly into the lives of the hero and heroine, the story has some of the horrible fascination of the old Saw Situation of silent days. One of Big Tom's evil associates (Jay Robinson), a sort of Ivy League Peter Lorre, picks up a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her naval escort (Arthur Franz) in a fancy bar and offers to take them slumming where the piano is progressive. Big Tom is there, and he dances with the girl in a forward way. "That's how I operate...