Word: villainously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bentley saw two major emotional appeals of melodrama--"pity of the hero and fear of the villain...
...fault. Governor Tavares said it was all the work of "Communist agitators," and promised to produce documents proving that the attacks had been organized abroad. Days passed without any documents. Lisbon declared that guns made in Czechoslovakia had been used by the attackers. A leading Luanda newspaper found another villain-foreign newspaper editors. It headlined a story that foreign reporters who asked permission to leave Angola were ordered by their head offices "to stay because important events were going to happen...
...Bedroom, by P. G. Wodehouse. Yet another out-of-plumb castle in the air, designed by the old master-this one inhabited by a tiddly young aristocrat named Freddy Widgeon, and besieged by a villain named Oofy Prosser...
...Trollope's Trendelssohn--is explained by Rosenberg: "The chief reason . . . is that [the good Jew] has been almost consistently a product of far too obvious and explicit ulterior motives. He bore from the first the pale cast of after-thought. Given the convention, the authors who kept the Jew-villain in circulation created their man with a good deal of spontaneity. The Jew-villain might not be a realistic figure; but within the canons of comedy and melodrama he could give the illusory appearance of being a creature of flesh and blood. The purveyors of the immaculate...
From Shylock to Svengali is a complete, sensitive, well written and valuable work. The only question which Rosenberg does not take up is why the Shylock myth has managed to persist. What repressed fears is society acting out in its persistent creation of the knife bearing villain? Rosenberg says, "I am aware . . . that literary conventions can tell us only so much about a subject which is, as bottom, impenetrable...