Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beer is not the drink of moderation but the drink of special privilege. The whisky drunk goes to jail; the beer drunk goes free. The whisky drinker pays excessive taxes; the beer drinker pays almost none. Beer is respectable, and can be advertised on television; whiskey is too evil to be mentioned on this medium. Why not face it? If whisky is bad, beer is bad; if beer is good, then whisky is good...
...parishioners for religious consolation at any hour, he was also arch and sporting at children's church picnics, full of charm at meetings of the church mothers, and a lively, intelligent man of the world with the businessmen of the local vestry. There were those, of course, whose evil tongues sought mischief in gossip over the frequent calls paid by the Rev. Mr. Ross on Wealthy Widow Kathleen Ryall about four years ago after the death of her husband-but, as Philip's devoted wife Eileen herself said, "Mrs. Ryall was in a terribly distressed state...
...Grades in courses," he said, "are a necessary evil, but for the exceptionally qualified student they might not be necessary...
...whether the present level of import duties will guarantee that watches will be produced at a level which defense authorities would consider adequate." In any case, he said, a high tariff is not the best way to protect the industry. In its place the U.S. should choose the lesser evil of paying government subsidies to makers, just as some airlines and shipowners are subsidized as a defense necessity. Thus watch prices would drop to the world-market level, and the cost of supporting a defense industry would be placed where it belongs-with the taxpayers, not watch buyers...
...lines he employs would, for he is quite explicit. Perhaps too explicit, for in the second play the invalid daughter is so weak as to be dramatically unexciting. She inspires only pity. As a result, the second play becomes almost a melodrama, with the forces of good and evil lined up like the liberals and McCarthy. But this explicitness does allow Rattigan free play to realize many aspects of the problem...