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Word: evils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...technique from Durer's enamel engravings, but the daring placement of the shrew, the uncanny emphasis on its very white eye belongs to the modern period. Without losing its descriptive accuracy, The Shrew is designed as a harrowing picture; the animal shown is an image of horrid, unfathomable evil...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: American Prints Today | 10/9/1959 | See Source »

...hanged as a witch in order to take her place as mistress of the Proctor farm. Naturally then, there are some typically Gallic seduction scenes that are only implied in the play. The blatant lust of Abigail, brilliantly and demonically played by Mylene Demongeot, completely erases the more insidious evil of the original character...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: The Crucible | 10/6/1959 | See Source »

...timid, the jealous and the lazy. All the world liked jolly-ups, and all the world was jolly. No one feared, for the jolly-up was a fact of life, solid and enduring, like Lamont and tutti-frutti. Now it appears that nothing is safe from the forces of evil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Time of Desire | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...Vaught Jr. "I never asked her about it," says Jimmy, "but I imagine Mary Ann went to him and said, 'Dr. Vaught, you've never talked to my daddy about coming to church,' and he probably said, 'Mary Ann, your daddy is an evil man.' If he did (she's a sweet child), Mary Ann said, 'No, he's not. My daddy's a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Little Rock's Convert | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...stand up in your tears, splash about in them and sing." But finally she has had enough and goes home to her parents, not telling Jimmy that she is pregnant. Her friend Helena (deftly played by Claire Bloom), a visitor in their garret, remains. Jimmy calls her an "evil-minded little virgin," but she becomes his mistress. In the end, his wife returns; the baby has miscarried and Alison is now broken enough to resume in resignation the aimless life in the attic flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 28, 1959 | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

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