Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Drawing on the Faculty's experience in the late 60s. Rosovsky cites an example: "We pass a mo- tion that it is evil to bomb Cambodia. I vote against that. What does it mean? It means that I have a different view. That consensus doesn't really mean anything...
...that's par for the course; the superficial portrayals keep events from slowing down. Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia and Harrison Ford as Han Solo don't make very convincing lovers, but Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker successfully reveals something resembling inner struggle between the Force and the evil his father represents. Since Star Wars. Hamill has changed Skywalker from the typical fairy-tale incarnation of goodness into a character torn by his affections for his father and his desires to save his friends, who represent the last people untouched by evil and corruption...
...deterrence, must Catholics support the huge outlay of money necessary to match our conventional forces with the Soviet Union's and so deprive domestic programs of funding? Must Catholics be conscientious objectors, since U.S. defense depends on "immoral" deterrence? What about the moral implications of succumbing to the evil rule of a godless dictator? Could a Catholic President seriously take the oath of office to protect the U.S. from foreign attacks? Our bishops must not leave millions of Catholics in this moral dilemma. We have heard their objection to our defense system and are now awaiting realistic alternatives...
...every day that a raving beauty gets to play a ravening crow. So Actress-Photographer Candice Bergen, 37, hopped at the chance to portray the evil sorceress Morgan le Fay in a three-hour CBS epic due this fall called Arthur the King, based on the Round Table legend. "I was relieved not to play the phlegmatic princess," says Bergen. "I like taking things in my own hands." Or talons. Dressed in a darkly feathered cape and one of the alltime great fright wigs, Bergen as Morgan swoops and plots against her half-brother Arthur, played by Malcolm McDowell...
...ever, Johnson argues, the belief that physical reality depended on where one stood was smuggled by social radicals into the realm of moral truth. The author's link age to the gentle mathematician is shaky, but his point is strong: moral relativism, the notion that good and evil are matters merely of point of view, is itself an evil...