Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam policy, is all the way against L.B.J. (whom he lately calls "LSD"). After he campaigned for Ronald Reagan last fall, there were rumors that he would be California's next actor-candidate. The Duke scoffs. Basically, he says, "I hate politics. I consider it a necessary evil." Besides, he likes his work too much-and says he needs the money. "I guess I've made higher salaries than anyone else in the business," he says, "and I have not, to my knowledge, been extravagant. Yet I can't afford a jet plane like some...
...ineffectual superhero, like television's Captain Nice and Mr. Terrific. Unlike them, Chickenman is genuinely witty. His real name is Benton Harbor, and his game is selling women's shoes in the Midland City department store, so he is available to fight "crime and/or evil" weekends only. "I don't want to be bugged at the store," he keeps having to remind the police commissioner...
...never merely topical but involved with the greatest and most permanent themes-life, death, love and grace. His anger is hot, but it is never unshaded by compassion. His disgust with the times is great, but it is never unqualified by a sense of the past. He knows that evil as well as good is in specific men, but also that it is in all men; that it is today, but also that it was yesterday...
...Viet Cong, you also mentioned the Viet Cong's control of the population in the countryside "by night" and the regime's "by day." Many Americans would go a little further by saying that the Viet Cong's nighttime control is possible because it is coupled with an "evil and dark system of terrorism." President Johnson, in his Johns Hopkins University speech, talked of "innocent children and women being strangled in the heart of the night" and of "terror striking the hearts of the cities...
...have seen one of the many so-called "evil" doings of the Viet Cong. Let us examine in turn some of the "good" doing of the American side. Let us suppose that in military operations such as Cedar Falls, the "allied forces" take every civilian out of his or her village safely, raze the village down as they did since it may be Viet Cong headquarter, then provide a nice modern house for each inhabitant along with all sorts of American "goodies" after the operation. Let us assume that if all this were true then what will the Vietnamese think...