Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From prehistoric time onward man has been fascinated by the image of birds. The owl has been interpreted as the symbol of wisdom on the one hand and of evil on the other, the raven as a sign of death and of victory. To the Egyptians the hawk represented the sun god; to early Christians the goldfinch depicted the crucifixion. Seldom has this multiform fascination been better illustrated than in the 160 paintings, bronzes, jugs, vases and primitive musical instruments on show last week at the Seattle Art Museum, a display ranging from a bird-shaped Chinese ritual vessel done...
...France and the vulgarity of the French Foreign Minister, I will say nothing. I leave it to the Algerians to give them a lesson in good manners." Then, in an ominous hint at the shape of things to come, he said: "I strongly warn the imperialist countries that their evil games will be reason for disturbing free navigation in the Suez Canal." Supplement to Sanctions. By week's end the Western powers had begun to do something besides stammer. Acting...
...crimebusting, Sergeant Sammy Golden and Father Joseph Shanley. The Jewish cop and the Roman Catholic priest are not only believable characters; they emerge as intelligent, genuinely good men who, therefore, understand the nature of wrongdoing. When these two set out to nail a crook, the standard good-v.-evil struggle takes on depth and excitement. There is probably a valuable lesson here for writers of the unrelieved tough-guy school, in which the hero's morals are as shady as those of the villains...
...ceaseless fish-eat-fish mood of the reef world ("Most living creatures, including ourselves, live on other creatures," reminds the narrator), there are no more or less evil villains, only keener appetites and larger gullets. Best comic is a baby sea turtle who hungrily attacks the film's true hero, a shy, sensitive octopus many times the turtle's size. The assault only bores the octopus. Secrets ends with a wild battle between the octopus and the movie's most sinister actor, a moray eel. Result: a draw, with the myopic eel's keen sense...
Tikoloshe is invisible, of course, to all but children or evil men. The squealing children obligingly dashed about, pointing where he was. "There-there-next to the window!" Crash went stones, hymnbooks, everything throwable, until not a pane of glass was left. "There he goes-under the pulpit!" The heaving, frantic mothers reduced the pulpit to matchwood. But Tikoloshe skipped off to another hiding place, and in a matter of minutes the inside of the church was a ruin...