Word: demonism
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...needs facts? This was a debate carried to a Platonic level of abstraction, with little firsthand information to get in the way of the warring factions' preconceptions. For conservatives, the demon was a snobby, radical media-entertainment industry; for liberals, an overreaching, freedom-averse ruling party. ("Right-wing thought police declare Reagan, like dissent, off-limits," cried People for the American Way, as if this would lead inevitably to storm troopers forcing audiences to watch Fox News at gunpoint...
...needs facts? This was a debate carried to a Platonic level of abstraction, with little firsthand information to get in the way of the warring factions' preconceptions. For conservatives, the demon was a snobby, radical media-entertainment industry; for liberals, an overreaching, freedom-averse ruling party. ("Right-wing thought police declare Reagan, like dissent, off-limits," cried People for the American Way, as if this would lead inevitably to storm troopers forcing audiences to watch Fox News at gunpoint...
...example, and you don't get only the dozen or so books in print with WMD in the title. You get all 1,690 books in the Amazon collection in which the author wrote that phrase--including such unlikely sources as On Writing by Stephen King or The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan. A couple more clicks and you get an image of the page where the phrase appears (and, if you choose, two or three pages before and after). Care only about books that discuss WMD at length? Amazon is smart enough to remember which books were bought...
...keep track of what her kids should be doing for homework without having to peer obnoxiously over their shoulders. More important, one of her children, who's now in sixth grade, is severely dyslexic. It takes him an hour to write a paragraph by hand--but he's a demon typist. "It was as if he was playing on a level field for the first time," she says, and her relief is heartfelt. "For him, having that laptop was like being given wings...
...Speed Demon...