Word: demonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the world goes wrong and we demand that someone pay for it, when Life Magazine needs a demon for our collective exorcism, we and Life look to the powerless (or occasionally to those that have fallen from power, reading that economic demise as testament to some moral failing). Denying one of the central facts of our social life, namely that the most chilling barbarities are fomented in committee, we isolate villains who cooperatively identify themselves by being members of the economic periphery in the first place (non-whites, "criminals," "drug addicts," the "insane," etc.). By assigning responsibility...
...Pusey era frequently contain pictures of the new president, his hair not yet gray, and often wearing a casual looking sweater under his tweed jacket, sipping sherry with undergraduates. In those days, he was still the hero of American academics, the man who had fought the right wing demon and defeated him. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences commended him in an unusual resolution, and he was featured on an Omnibus program. His door was still open to the press, which heaped him with praise...
...cemented, you, me, them," Barbara cries. In the end, Keneally looses a Jehovah-like flood on the outback and the Glovers, washing himself clean of his creation. But in the meantime, writing like an angel, he has forcefully raised an ancient question: What is the demon in man that so often makes him a monster to those condemned to love him-including himself...
Harvard's architectural plans may not include a drag racing track at Soldiers' Field-the "Friends of Harvard Racing Track" are not well organized as a lobby. But the Class of '65's leading speed demon, Bill Dutcher, will be in town today to prepare for the Yamaha Silver Cup Race, to be held June 10 in the Boston Garden...
...Loring had a bad day and lost both his singles and doubles matches. "Tom was having trouble lobbing in the wind in singles. His opponent was able to stay at net and was volleying like a demon," coach Jack Barnaby said. It still took Dartmouth's captain Justin Stanley three sets to beat Loring...