Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to let himself be stampeded by Defense into slamming any doors he may want to walk through later." In his U.N. speech, the President simply advocated negotiations and added a candid explanation of the difference in tone between that address and his earlier fulminations against the "evil empire." Said Reagan: "America has repaired its strength; we have invigorated our alliances and friendships. We are ready for constructive negotiations with the Soviet Union." Translation: two or three years ago, in Reagan's view, the U.S. was not militarily strong enough to talk turkey with the Soviets...
Domingo notwithstanding, the Met's Lohengrin was far from a one-man show. Marton, a dazzling Wagnerian soprano who is equally adept at setting off such potent Italian fireworks as Turandot, made a gloriously fearsome opponent as the evil sorceress. Her blazing fury as she confronts her weak husband Telramund (Baritone Franz-Ferdinand Nentwig) near the start of Act II won a spontaneous ovation that stopped the show. Providing a worthy foil for Marton's villainy was Tomowa-Sintow, a lyric soprano with a pure, unforced voice that improved after a somewhat shaky first act; her fateful exchange...
Halakhic Man, a sweeping defense of the validity and excitement of pursuing the religiously observant life in the modern world, makes much of humanity's God-given creativity. According to Soloveitchik, "God left an area of evil and chaos in the world so that man might make it good," purposely flawing the perfection of his own material creation to leave room for the improvements that could be made by his obedient creature...
Ronald Reagan came into office pledging to leave the Soviet Union on the "dustbin" of history, and with his blessing, his minious proceeded to scuttle just about any chance for an accomodation with the evil empire. Granted their chances were not propitious, given the beligerent Russian frame of mind and intransigence on Euromissiles, but they were non-existent under the maximalist approach to arms control favored by Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and his Svengali, Ricahrd Perle, who have had the President's ear on these matters...
...over tactics or money-though I do believe that the tactics of divestment will not succeed and that they would cost University money. At bottom this is also a dispute about the nature of the University itself and the ways in which it should and should not respond to evil in the outside would...