Word: evil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Upon arriving here at Harvard we were struck by the vigor and perseverance of the South African Solidarity Committee (SASC). Both of us find the system of apartheid despicable, and we felt respect for students advocating the eradication of such an evil institution. But our perception of SASC's goals have begun to change. We now wonder exactly what the goals of SASC are. Does SASC want to free South Africans from the chains of apartheid, or is there a further goal? It seems that SASC stands not only in support of oppressed South Africans, but also of other African...
...Deer Hunter, in any case, are only the beginning. Still to come is Francis Ford Coppola's long delayed $35 million Apocalypse Now, opening in August. Coppola has based the film on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Dark ness, translating the tale of savagery and evil from the Congo to Viet Nam. There, Marlon Brando, playing the Mr. Kurtz character, is a renegade Army colonel who has taken over a remote province and set up his own war against the Communists. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is sent to assassinate the rebellious Kurtz. The movie is already...
...issue that struck at the heart of most students, and indeed triggered the protest for many, was the University's continuing involvement with the Reserve Officer Training Corps. ROTC symbolized, for many, the University's complicity in an evil war--the financial link to the military, the conduit for Harvard students into the war itself, was so direct, so tangible, that it became the focus for the anti-war protests on campus. As time passed, more and more students accepted the arguments of the activists in SDS: ROTC must go. The Faculty, led by then-President Nathan M. Pusey...
...lies in the historical and philosophical interest in Gnosticism itself, not in Bloom's bankrupt dramatization of it. The Gnostics envision a complete reversal of Biblical myths on the order of Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In their version, the Old Testament's creator-God becomes the evil Demiurge, who created the physical world to imprison man and estrange him from the true God--who is not part of Creation at all, but an alien being to whom men with true knowledge, or gnosis, seek to return. The doctrines make provocative theology and a fascinating attack...
...discover that five times a day his 14-year-old son joins a group of friends at a mosque for prayer. In Tunisia, whose President Habib Bourguiba has promoted equal rights for women, including divorce and abortion, students belonging to the militant Muslim Brothers wage war on "sin and evil" by painting over sexually suggestive cinema billboards and chalking quotations from the Koran on city walls. At Cairo University (enrollment: 130,000), hundreds of female Egyptian students have donned the veil and demanded classes separate from male students...