Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayor was untouched; there were great evil forces at work in the world, and Paul Egan stood ready to analyze them with frequent, mysterious monologues. Sample: "Lenin was a noble man, like Gandhi. It was that sonofabitch Trotsky that messed things up. And that obscenity Stalin. I wonder where he came from. I'll tell you. I think J. P. Morgan put him in. The two big things that cause world tension are religion and the National Association of Manufacturers. I went down to the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach and I saw gutters made out of marble...
...audience that an actor is "a man with a heart like yours," and that "what he tells you is true." Playing Tonio with vacuous smile as a simpleton rather than a physical cripple, Warren shot the role full of pity which honed rather than blunted its edge of evil. In his great self-revelatory aria ("I know I'm deformed and ugly"), his mahogany-hued voice soared with a passion and authority that no other baritone today can top. Not even the beloved Vesti la giubba (sung by Italian Tenor Mario Ortica as Canio) got a bigger hand...
...evil genius who organized the systematic slaughter of Anne Frank and her kind did his job well. Of the 600,000 Jews who once lived in Germany, only a mere 15,000 were left after the war. An estimated 300,000 fled to safety; the rest were either deported or killed. Today, official Jewish community listings number only 17,000 Jews in West Germany although there are perhaps another 15,000 in the country. Because most of them are either very old or very young, the number increases by only 1,000 or so each year. In all Berlin, where...
...point or another, Orpheus Descending achieves everything that Tennessee Williams does well and even does uniquely: whiplashing recrimination, harshly funny humor, the corrosive bite of evil, the shaking fingers of fright. Actress Maureen Stapleton has some extraordinary moments as the wife, Cliff Robertson some quietly effective ones as the guitar player. But, taken as a whole, the play fails, and for three reasons: a faultiness of structure, an obsessiveness of attitude, an empurpling theatricalism...
Fourth Day shows the molten sun and cooling moon pulling apart in the primary blue sky, while the first living things begin their incandescent dance of life. As for the dark cloud, Kovarsky suggests that it represents Lilith, the legendary predecessor of Eve, who has now become an evil spirit, roaming the desolate spaces...