Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writes as though his view represents some kind of radical reassessment. That may have been so for a liberal like Miller, but his judgment is actually coming to be pretty much the conventional wisdom. History has been kind to Dwight Eisenhower, virtually reversing Mark Antony's declaration that the evil that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with their bones. All but forgotten now is the Eisenhower who spent much of his presidency playing bridge and golf, who collected handsome presents from rich friends, who presided over an era that is still synonymous with complacency...
Here is a case of an enemy of totalitarianism failing to listen to someone who's lived under it. The great evil of the Soviet Union or the Third Reich is its ability to stamp out the humanity of humans. Brodksy knows this evil, having lived in a world where the private realm is quite completely controlled by the state...
HAVING seen the state at its most evil, he has looked into its essence, such that no state, no matter how benign can be thought of as a defense against the autonomy of the soul. Brodsky implores us to care about literature because it offers a refuge from the tyranny of the state by offering us ourselves...
...cold war calls to arms in the name of defending freedom around the globe. America's national morale curdled and began tumbling off into the unthinkable. The true unthinkable was that "Amerika," as those on the New Left dubbed it, was not merely mistaken or even bad, but evil. The mild unthinkable, entertained probably by most, was that the nation had made a bad mistake. Americans, who love a winner, detest thinking of themselves as losers, and they saw themselves distinctly as losers after Tet. Metaphysically, they may have thought that if America was a loser, God's grace...
...there been any outcry over Robertson's TV tape? Not a bit. None of the Republican presidential candidates have dared to challenge Robertson on the church-state issue, even though the former televangelist may run third in Iowa. This seeming immunity from reproach is reminiscent of the see-no-evil response to Jesse Jackson's "Hymietown" slurs about New York City in 1984. The Democrats running last time out made only muted responses to those anti-Semitic comments, nor did they stress Jackson's ties with black Hatemonger Louis Farrakhan. Last fall Jackson received a similar free ride about...