Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they were and are dead wrong. The nightmarish "peace" that now exists in Indochina cannot be separated from the war and viewed in isolation as merely a product of communist evil. Vietnam, Cambodia and their neighbors are the legacies of conflict largely propagated by the United States. War, not a particular ideology, traumatized those societies and stripped their politics of all humanity--war the United States encouraged and then escalated...
...Primeval Snake, the Evil One, Satan. The Cabala refers to me as Samael and the Jews sometimes call me merely 'that...
...watching my father try to use his position in the FBI to do something good. He works on civil rights cases and he works on brutality cases, and he's got the best intentions in the world If there's one truth to radical doctrine, it's that most evil in the world is institutionally caused and in some sense inevitable without that institution. There's no way I can see myself wallowing in the kind of impotence I see my father in, trying to make the best out of an inherently bad situation. There's also something about being...
...heavy, the air polluted. No detail is too gross and no conversation too crude to be recorded. It is as if Shea's residual pride and growing self-hatred prevent him from putting euphemisms between himself and his experience. Raw sin is like a dose of salts, evil is a flail for self-punishment, and the law smells of deals, not ideals. Even his Roman Catholic soul can cop a plea: "He had his script worked out. Confession on his deathbed. Penance. Extreme unction. Two sacraments for the price of one. A perfect act of contrition. Not to mention...
...message, if any, emerging from the twin cases is apparent only through examining the shades of difference between the upper-class crimes. Barry Locke, the high-level bureaucrat who stole tax dollars typifies the evil outcast. Unlike in other recent corruption scandals--like those of Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's budget director, and Hugh Casey, Ronald Reagan's CIA director--no one stood up for Locke. The day he was charged King suspended him without pay. The day he was convicted, King called the whole affair "unfortunate." The public now scorns, cars, parodying the "Make it in Massachusetts" bumper stickers...