Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...take a short view of life and no view at all of moral principles will write China off as a failure. Let no one be deceived. Ours is the cause of freedom. China's struggle now is the initial phase of a gigantic conflict between good and evil, between liberty and communism...
...past: that of a ruthlessly ambitious soldier who first murdered his best friend and then whole masses of people. At first, true to his nature, Kenelm is willing to settle for a soft spot on Cape Sable. In the end, like Wallis, he feels the need to exorcise his evil conscience...
Wallis' life turns out to have been not so much a web of calculated evil as of thoughtlessness and stupidity. He was always at odds with his conventional father, almost from the first had too much money. In purgatory, what seems to bother him most is his haphazard sex life and the scars it left on him and on his women. One by one they are brought before him and Wallis realizes that through his earthly life he was incapable of real love, behaved badly with wife and mistresses alike...
...slowly at first, as the authors establish the situation and character relationships. After the first act, it picks up a good deal of speed and dramatic power. The same is true of the acting. Ralph Clanton is convincing, often frighteningly so, as the Earl, a man of almost demoniac evil. Martha Scott and Charlton Heston give rounded, creditable performances as Margaret and John Clitherow. Miss Scott's portrayal of the heroine is not inspiring, but she does an extremely competent job in a part that calls for straightforward acting...
...After the last flares are gone, Gerald grips the boy's arm and Duncan feels "the current of some deep emotion pass from the man's body to his own." Though unable to give this emotion a name, Duncan senses that he has somehow been soiled by evil. At school, where he feels "as though virtue had gone out of him," he becomes a sneak thief and is expelled...