Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...maketh his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."--Matthew...
...lawyer in a small Massachusetts town takes on the case of a man accused of murdering a local physician. Archimedes Nionakis knows that his client is innocent. He also realizes that in trying to find the real killer, "I was going to confront nothing as pure and recognizable as evil but a sorrowful litany of flaws, of failures, of mediocre hopes, and of vanity." During the course of his investigation, Nionakis finds his already low-voltage ambition dimmed by the tawdriness he encounters around him. Knowing that his prosperous relatives wonder about him and his modest law practice, the lawyer...
Totalitarianism remains unique, and uniquely evil, in its ambition: total control. But, as often as not, its reach exceeds its grasp. And this calls into question another of its attributes: irreversibility...
Still, despite the viruses' apparent potential for good, their much greater capacity for evil has been amply demonstrated. Smallpox. Yellow fever. Rabies. Polio. And now the cruel AIDS epidemic. Concludes David Baltimore: "You could get rid of all the viruses from the world and the world would not be the worse...
...Nancy, you have to believe either that Vicious and Spungen were pathfinders of a new sensibility, only too frail to find profit or pleasure in it, or that their symbiotic degradation is in some way instructive or entertaining. But no. The twin evil geniuses of the Sex Pistols were Lead Singer Johnny Rotten and the band's manager Malcolm McLaren. They defined the attitude of punk music; Sid and Nancy were just the creatures that lived and died under that rock. And since they begin in life's gutter, their fall into the sewer is a boring given. Alex...