Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Princeton's Dick Kazmaier was throwing strikes to Frank McPhee-the pass was a sometime thing. In his biggest year, Quarterback Lujack gained 791 yds. on passes, a figure that Terry Hanratty has already eclipsed this year with five games still to go. "The pass was a necessary evil," explains Whitey Piro, a onetime Iowa coach, now a scout for the pro Buffalo Bills. "You passed only when you were in trouble, when you had long yardage to make on third down. But practically no techniques were taught. You just ran toward the goal line and looked back every...
Brown still rides, with the seeming invincibility of Mordor, atop the soccer world; but last weekend's games singled out Harvard as the Ivies' Frodo Baggins, possessing the only chance of halting the evil Brownies' march to their third straight Ivy title...
...George C. Scott and Ava Gardner as Abraham and Sarah, the ancient barren pair who crawl abed hopefully cooing Songs of Solomon. Peter O'Toole, as three Angels of the Lord, smites Sodom in triplicate, terrorizing hordes of extras, who, as usual, do their best to make transcendental evil shine through gaudy sequins and gobs of purple eye shadow. Any characters who are at all respectable converse with a vengeful Deity mainly by lifting eyes skyward, and the pauses throb with crashing drums, heavenly choirs and bird song-everything, in fact, but a bouncing ball to help the audience...
This tendency, Oglesby feels, derives from the image we have of our role in the socio-economic structure of the world. "The U.S. sees itself as a frontier of western civilization," an image that connotes a conflict between good and evil. "The wilderness," or what we must conquer to preserve our society, lies anywhere that Western values have not yet penetrated...
Other organizations which employ whites tend to feel that, as organizations, they are more mature and have conquered the fear that "whitey is trying to take over" when black and white are actually both working towards the same goals. Some, in this category, say that whites are a necessary evil in their groups and must be put up with until "they have worked themselves out of a job"--have trained a Negro replacement...