Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Second, security is a necessary evil. It would be infinitely better if any speaker could have his say at Harvard without security and without interruption. If Harvard actually punished just one student for disrupting a spech, we would not have this problem. A single example would deter others. But in every case, from the students who threw paint ballons at Caspar Weinberger to those who drove Wilson Goode and his entire audience out of the hall, the University has refused to mete out any meaningful discipline. In the absence of deterrence, the Club needs, and our speakers demand, adequate security...
Dewitt was worried. Was his wonder substance losing its potency? Was its capacity to work good, and not evil, for mankind diminishing? Frankly, Dewitt did not know. So a teaspoonful of magic was applied, and there was the answer in black and white...
Music bellowed and posters screamed..... 'Maria Pulls It Off! 'The Sickening Galactic Evil of Gargoyle the Globekiller--your guts will run and your flesh will crawl!... On monitors in the window, men boxed and played cricket, barbarians slaughtered hordes of demon invaders, outer space warriors zapped each other in fountains of gore, a caveman swung across what looked like a missile silo towards a control room in which a mad masked axeman made ready to hack up a screaming pubescent girl, and women wanked ferociously in a variety of imaginative positions...
...Confessions and Dutch Shea, Jr., John Gregory Dunne now takes the "big bite," Mailerese for manly portions of theme and experience. The Red White and Blue even has some of the portentous overtones of Mailer's An American Dream, and like the Champ, Dunne has an acute sense of evil and a highly developed sniffer for the hydrants of power. He is also wickedly funny, if your taste runs to hilarious funerals, jocular murder trials and droll executions: "The warden and I had the prime rib. Yorkshire pudding and strawberry shortcake . . . Last meals. It would make a hell...
...Seal. Its language was restrained, dignified, sometimes even gentle. But its message was scalding. Rarely has a presidential commission so sharply criticized its creator. The 288-page report of the President's Special Review Board on the Iran-contra affair describes an incredibly inattentive Ronald Reagan, a hear-no-evil Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, a devious former CIA Director William Casey, and a Chief of Staff Don Regan whose proclaimed mastery of spin control failed miserably when faced with a matter of substance. And while these officials floundered, Oliver North, with the approval...