Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harm--are smooth and sophisticated, gliding productively through life. It is this apparent power, most likely, that prompts so many feminists to claim her work as the ideological property of the women's movement, a tendency which leads naturally to the temptation to dismiss her male supporting characters as evil insensitive foils for the struggling females. The temptation is false, through: Atwood's men, though by no means models of balance, meet her "real people" criterion of complexity, and her feminism is of a healthy, direct sort...
...these circles, there is perhaps less evil than ignorance, less design than accident. Doodling with the faceless technological passion of institute directors, people talk knowledgeably about "windows of vulnerability." "throw-weight," and of putting missiles on trains, an idea as absurd as mounting them in baby carriages. But as we, like Europe before 1914, lunch we know not where, absurdity becomes dangerous, and no longer only sad, as was Jakob's bitter luxury. Next time, no one will read of an old man's cold pleasures, of musing over weak tea about shattered, harmonies and faded memories, in ruins wrought...
...communists in Vietnam. But that is a far cry from agreeing with Podhoretz that the U.S. background the rights with Translating ideals into something real will continue to be hard work: it is though a much more noble task than shedding the blend of the innocent in supported an evil status...
...bishops then moved on to reformulate their pro-life viewpoints on a number of issues, most notably the nuclear-arms buildup. Though the hierarchy is not pacifist, it declared in 1976 that the use of nuclear weapons under any circumstances is evil, and that a deterrent strategy that even threatens to use them is also evil. Led by their activist president, Minnesota Archbishop John Roach, the bishops will meet in November to issue a new declaration that could endorse a bilateral freeze, unless moderates like Terence Cardinal Cooke prevail...
...searched out The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951. As Young-Bruehl observes, Arendt sustained throughout "500 dense, difficult pages a deep, agonized 'Ach!' before the deeds of infamy she analyzed." The book was an angry, detailed journey over Europe's pitchforked roads to "radical evil": imperialism, racism and antiSemitism...