Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violent action was judged by Malcolm X and others to have failed. In Birmingham, King mounted a frontal attack upon the segregation and oppression of Blacks in Alabama. There, before the unbelieving eyes of millions of television viewers, and in the front pages of newspapers, he "exposed the evil of bigotry in all its viciousness. "King believed the Birmingham movement had thus been a success and as such was a turning point in the civil rights drive: now it was no longer possible for men of conscience to remain uncommitted. In light of this interpretation, it is important to know...
...right moves. He offers a hero with a preposterous scheme and, for the reader's benefit, a sidekick who must be told what is going on every step of the way. An innocent bystander, female, is caught up in the machinations. And the opposition forces are evil and apparently unbeatable...
...Chief evil is not man-boy--woman-girl--man-woman--woman-man--love: but bringing children into H-bomb world ticketed for planetary destruction...
...Bulgarian involvement in the papal shooting. He accused Western intelligence agencies and the Western press of conducting "a malicious campaign that has not a grain or iota of truth." Added Zamyatin: "If these insinuations continue, it will be seen as a deliberate campaign of aggravating world tension, an evil-minded campaign to discredit Bulgaria and the Soviet Union in the eyes of Catholics...
...Frank Oz and $26 million, Henson has devised a luxuriantly original fantasy world as dark as the magic crystal totem at its center. The setting is "another world, another time, in the Age of Wonder." A war between the benevolent Mystics (who look like shaggy-dog anteaters) and the evil Skeksis (pustular vultures) has obliterated all but a few of each. Under the Skeksis' whimsically sadistic reign, virtually every member of the industrious elfin race of Gelflings has been slaughtered. Only two remain-Jen, a young male, and the girl Kira-to replace the crystal's missing shard...