Word: evils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grumbling among his people, Franco believes that their vivid memories of the bloody days when brother killed brother in Spain will keep them from open revolt. After 20 years in power, Franco's one great strength with his countrymen lies in the old Spanish saw: "Better the known evil than the unknown good...
...because He is God and not because Job is prosperous . . . that Job will still love God and fear him in adversity, in misfortune, in the worst of misfortunes-in spite of everything . . . Which means that in the conflict between God and Satan, in the struggle between good and evil. God stakes his supremacy as God upon man's fortitude and love. Which means, again, that where the nature of man is in question . . . God has need...
Soon he is doing such a brisk business exorcising evil spirits that he has to buy his own fleet of taxis to ferry his patients over the rutted dirt roads. When Ganesh writes a book called What God Told Me ("On Thursday, May 12, at nine o'clock in the morning, just after I had had breakfast, I saw God . . ."), half the island of Trinidad burns with celestial visions. His Profitable Evacuation (approved by island authorities in the mistaken belief that it is a book on civil defense) becomes a bestseller. Ganesh tops his career by representing his country...
...East of Eden" reminds you enough of adult westerns to make the transition easy. Its characters are the simple "morality play" characters of the Western put in situations where good and evil are hard to define, and only love wins...
...smoke-wagon Siegfried, represented in different ways a more mature attempt on the part of the western hero to behave like a man. And in such pictures as John Ford's Stagecoach and William Wellman's The Ox-Bow Incident, the mythological struggle between Good and Evil was enacted on the personal plane; while in George Stevens' Shane and in Fred Zinnemann's High Noon, the western hero for the first time in movie history had to face what that struggle really means: the necessity of moral choice. For the first time he experienced his free...