Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Dakota's Republican Senator Francis Case (TIME, Feb. 20). Chaired by Georgia's painstaking Walter George, the committee has listened to 22 witnesses, taken 849 pages of testimony, spent $10,000-all the while following meticulously the Senate's instructions to see and hear no evil other than that bearing on the Case case. Last week the committee delivered itself of a weighty verdict that advanced public knowledge not a whit...
...difference in tone. Mister Johnson is really, from beginning to end, the portrait of a happy-go-unlucky man, the saga of a culturally displaced person. A comedy of miscomprehension that explodes into sudden tragedy, it is all the sadder for involving no villains, no clash of good and evil, or even of conscious right and wrong...
Book Gresham's evil power is opposed by Brother Cox, the "webbed faced" preacher who tries to close the valley honky-tonk but loses his "holy war agin sin" when Book frames him for "a sight of carrying-on'' with a no-good girl. Fate Laird takes on too much when he gives Bodoc a job and takes the preacher's side against the courthouse-cathouse gang. Laird's son Clay shoots a mean deputy and is convicted of murder in Book Gresham's court. But in the end a sort of moral truce...
...publishers say that Borden Deal is one-eighth Chickasaw Indian. Philosophically, he is also part Manichee-an adherent of the doctrine that good and evil are unmixed. This view of life handicaps a novelist of great honesty...
...that the "unfortunates," the "soiled doves," not only had a better time of it than their virtuous sisters sweating in domestic slavery or the nightmare of piecework needlework, but were better people in some ways than the severely swathed ladies and broadcloth gentlemen who regarded them as a "social evil...