Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LIKE MANY ALLEGORIES, the movie develops plot at the expense of meaningful character development. Characters fall neatly into place as Good or Evil; symbols are constantly thrown at the allegory-watcher. Will and Pierce communicate clandestinely through messages left in--get it?--a book called The Decline and Fall of Western Civilization. When Will asks a wise old officer if there really is a place called The Hole, to which the Ten are rumored to take the cadets they don't like, the officer cannily replies "Is Hell a real place...
...until the appearance of the Father Brown mysteries in the early '20s that readers discerned, in his vast output, a sense of the author's bedrock beliefs. The tales followed a bumbling, intuitive priest who understood evil more profoundly than any policeman. Chesterton said he based the character on the qualities he found in a real priest, Father John O'Connor, but Brown was, in fact, an idealized projection of his creator...
...book's start "A.M." is the pure, Catholic woman, P.M. the lecherous man. A.M., like day, represents good and opens Chicago politics to the light of public scrutiny, while P.M. is a reporter on the take, leaving the dealings of this sponsors in darkness and symbolizing the evil of the evening. While P.M. is sexually conquering A.M., evil is running rampant in the O'Brien administration. Kennedy, a professor of psychology, manages to mix pop psychology and symbols in with sex, violence and political corruption; the result is more like a T.V. movie than anything resembling literature...
...control the West Bank through colonization [Jan. 17]. The British tried similar tactics when they imported Scotsmen to Northern Ireland during the early 17th century. The descendants of those settlers have achieved dubious results as we see in Ulster today. Begin's settlement policy may be creating an evil that will curse the area for generations to come...
...flame of hope that Meldon E. Levine still saw burning--that is what has been extinguished on campus. In the 10 years since America's Vietnam War officially ended. Harvard students have moved gradually toward a politics of almost meaningless labels: avoid the excess of "radicalism": blame all evil on "conservatives." Remain "liberal," and you're safe. The mindset encourages mildness and discourages being identified as someone whose life is dedicated to "some cause" or, even worse, "causes in general...