Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, it is fallacious to argue that to promote understanding of evil one must print it--with wild abandon. Unadulterated depiction of petty hypocrisies and disregard for people in exchange for images is not the purpose of a newspaper in all its efforts, feeble and not so feeble, to unearth evil. And in arguing that we should print evil to expose evil we buy into a false dichotomy about the way we view The Crimson and its goals--either we spew mindless, evil propaganda or we ignore evil altogether and try to play to only the pure, clean interests...
Indeed, if depiction of evil were the best way to point out that we should avoid evil, then The Crimson should fold and attempt to turn itself into the Salient or a party newspaper for the KKK, Playboy, the Nazis and every other evil in our society that we can think of. We should assault our readers with evil; we should distribute vile propaganda free to the doorstep of every undergraduate; we should use Square Deal tactics in pushing our viciousness on every passerby in the Square...
...proceedings of Dartmouth's student-faculty Committee on Standards, one faculty member called the students "evil" and a student expressed the desire to kick them out of school, a suspended student recently told The Crimson...
Quoting St. Augustine, "never fight evil as if it arose outside of you," Coffin imagined a super-power summit where the leaders would first admit the sins of their respective administrations, "to take away the self-rightousness" in superpower relations...
...down, the Reagan Administration waffled for weeks while Corazon Aquino, the most inspiring "freedom fighter" in recent memory, was cheated out of the Philippine presidency by the Marcos's sleazy shenanigans. The presidential hemming and hawing on the Philippine election, which Aquino correctly called a contest between good and evil, came during a new Administration initiative to funnel aid to two dubious movements: the Contras in Nicaragua and Jonas Savimbi's South Africa-backed rebels in Angola...