Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BIGGEST nightmare, however, is going to parties here. I always run into some poor girl foolish enough to ask me my name. This may seem like an innocuous, everyday event, but its effect is always an evil one. For example...
...Italian Jewish novelist Prime Levi, who has devoted much of his life to trying to express what he witnessed as a prisoner at Auschwitz, has written that "our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man." When we write of radical evil in the world, we can record the details of its existence, the facts about its operation, but we cannot translate the darkness itself. More words betray...
...system of apartheid is totally repugnant to me," said U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz in Washington, responding to questions about the Uitenhage tragedy. "The pattern of violence has underlined how evil and unacceptable that system is." Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Chester Crocker, who was in Cape Town for talks with South African officials, declared that "the cycle of violence must come to an end now." But President Reagan, speaking at his news conference on the day of the killings, suggested that "rioting" marchers were at least partly to blame for the clash and pointed out that "some...
...events is that the Reagan Administration may have inadvertently contributed to the decision of the old men in Moscow to pick a youngster as their first among equals. For much of Reagan's first term, U.S. officials pounded away at claims that the Soviet Union is not only an evil empire but an empire in decline and that what the Soviets call "the correlation of forces" is in fact shifting in favor of the West. In a speech to Members of the British Parliament in June 1982, Reagan hailed "the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism...
Unfortunately, Gilbert's tender heart finds it impossible to kill the pig and prefers to let it carry out its pungent existence in his suburban home. Meanwhile, the evil Ministry of Food inspector Wormold (Bill Paterson) is keeping his Big Brother-esque eye on him. A man with neither smell nor taste, Wormold is fast becoming suspicious of Gilbert...