Word: demonicism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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So far nearly 3 million people have seen Walker's pictures at exhibitions in Toronto, Mexico City and New York, and in a U.S. high school student magazine. He has correlated thousands of comments in order to gauge just how evocative each picture is and how strong the response...
For those who wonder what to believe, things get harder all the time. Sociologists insist that newspapers often manufacture "crime waves." Once an unusual holdup catches an editor's eye, every similar crime is. reported as one more chilling example of the same-even though at the end of...
More "advanced" societies have forgotten the demonic language of superstition and luck, which they are inclined to call "dumb" or "blind." They often have no better explanation than primitives do for luck's strange intercessions, but they generally adopt a strategy both passive and fatalistic, a stoical mixture of...
Harvard Professor Richard Pipes, a Polish emigre and currently Ronald Reagan's principal advisor on Soviet affairs, is the most extreme of the ideologues. In a typically demonic characterization of the Soviet Union, Pipes once wrote that "the Soviet Union had indeed been organized by Lenin from the beginning for...
An admirable theory, but the whole tradition of the demonic robot assumes that when a metal creature feels immortal longings, no mere law can rein him in. Arthur C. Clarke demonstrated that in 2001. The computer HAL not only operates the space ship and talks in a supercilious tenor but...