Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most of us still have a lingering belief that every choice, even every political choice, is between good and evil, and that if a thing is necessary it is also right. We should, I think, get rid of this belief, which belongs to the nursery. In politics one can never do more than decide which of two evils is the lesser, and there are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic...
...been consistent nor persistent. President Carter attempted overtures and embargoes, all of which failed, while President Reagan has concentrated on rhetoric and containment. Both followed a policy of switches Carter went forward on SALT and backwards on Afghanistan and grain, while Reagan has vacillated between calling the Soviets an "evil empire" and attempting negotiations, demanding toughly that the requirements of treaties be observed while at the same time revamping embargoes by keeping economic ties sullenly open. Meanwhile, the high-level means of diplomacy in the United States have dwindled to a very serious level of uncertainty. In the Reagan administration...
...substance of our private talks with the Soviets may perhaps be hopeful, or at least realistic. One hopes that the career diplomats in Geneva don't plan diplomacy by regarding each other as "evil empires," or as "imperialist businessmen." But it seems self-contradictory to be running a secret policy of diplomacy with a public policy of denunciation and it bears the secret assumption that nobody of any importance in either country should or can have anything to say in the process of peace. Neither government seems willing to remember that they govern countries of human beings who, given facts...
...tumbled, half ran past the Crimson 'H' sweaters, the Vuarnaise sunglasses, the tweed jackets, the finished Bloody Marys. Every innocent, smiling, yammering face was evil, responsible for this idiocy, a part of this mass subjgation of reason, this mass return to the cradle for otherwise rational Blue and Crimson graduates...
There was nothing inevitable about Dorothy Stratten's nightmare. The culprit in her case was not an evil system, but rather a society which fails to equip its young women with the facts and self-assertiveness necessary for them to make sensible decisions in a world that is free, but also harsh, hazardous, and confusing. Had Stratten recognized herself from the start as an individual with rights--despite her sex-kitten looks--she would have viewed herself as a corporation, instead of as an object of Snider's genuine affection. Indeed, a growing number of models and actresses (such...