Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mexico desert for miles around, the atomic era began, and J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of Los Alamos scientists realized that they had pulled off the most astonishing scientific achievement of the century. Only later did they truly comprehend the extent to which they had released an evil genie from its bottle that neither they, nor anyone else, could ever put back...
...with Emerson. His voice seemed too rarefied, ethereal to the point of disconnection with reality - and in any case demonstrably incomplete. He seemed almost bizarrely and willfully ignorant about the darker side of things. Henry James put his finger on it with an exquisite condescension: a "ripe unconsciousness of evil ... is one of the most beautiful signs by which we know him." The Candide of Concord...
Perhaps the 20th century is merely one of the moping-dog phases. It may be the sin of pride to claim so much evil and despair for oneself. The Black Death killed off one-third of Western and Central Europe in the 14th century, but in the Emersonian calendar of the perfectible universe, it was only a temporary epidemic - something that was going around...
Good triumphed over the darkest forces of evil Saturday afternoon, as the Crimson shelacked the Lampoon, 23-2, in softball action at Soldiers' Field. the big, brawny 'Poonics swatted only air as they chased after Crimed hurler Mark Doctoroff's choice selection of pitches...
Hendrik is not inherently evil. Indeed, in Klaus Maria Brandauer's person, he presents a rather open and innocent face to the world, and one comes to see that he is the victim not so much of calculation as of a failure to calculate. He appeals before he appalls. He really cannot see, until the end of the story, the difference between the Nazis and everyone else with whom he has leagued himself to get ahead, cannot imagine the dire consequences of ambition unmediated by, among other factors, simple common sense...