Word: viles
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your vile falsehoods to destroy McCarthy should be jammed down your lying throats with a pitchfork...
...stage a Gallicorgy after the style exemplified by Quo Vadis?. He prefers to draw out indignation, letting the characters condemn themselves by treating infidelity, indelicacy and even brutality as daily steps toward a Good Life whose only end is to escape boredom. Not that decadence is portrayed as innately vile. Rather, its syrupy charm cloys, smothering its cultists' sensibilities until stock motions, reactions and conversations replace emotions...
...heap is going a bit far when they pretend to know which particular ant has bitten them"; the mayor, an "upholder of correct living," who is too honest to send an innocent man to the guillotine "without some preliminary qualms of conscience"; the honest masses, who virtually cheer a vile crime because they think the criminal is one of them and because "a crime which outraged the peo ple in good society was not deserving of their protest." The thread of this dry, dispassionate satire hangs on the question: Will the murderer be caught? He is, but that hardly matters...
Last week, when Fisher, who wants to run for Congress in the Republican primary, reported to the U.S. marshal's office to begin a jail term for contempt, each and every employee was on hand to bid him goodbye as he vanished into durance vile until he changes his mind...
...Happy Time. In Milwaukee, Fred De Vorse Sr., asking a divorce from his wife Phyllis, testified that she had 1) kicked him so hard that she caused a hernia, 2) crashed a shovel into the rear of his car, "bruising" window glass and denting the luggage compartment, 3) used "vile and abusive" language...