Word: evil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...registering an opinion that we at least partially condone the apartheid system. If we divest, we will not, as the so-called pragmatists will undoubtedly charge, be engaging in mere moral handwashing. We will be taking an honorable stance in the face of what is a clear and irremediable evil. When events careen out of control as they have, divestment is both the most and the least Harvard...
Another aspect of Falwell's crusade has received less attention but is at least as important in its implications. He is mobilizing and altering the consciousness of that once insular component of American religion known as Fundamentalism. Before Falwell, Fundamentalist preachers denounced evil in "the world" in order to compel their flocks into strict isolation from it. Nowadays those same jeremiads are a stern call to social action. "When I was growing up," recalls Fundamentalist Pastor Keith Gephart of Alameda, Calif., "I always heard that churches should stay out of politics. Now it seems almost...
...Beyond Thunderdome is the third movie in the series featuring Mel Gibson as the ever-infuriated Max, pursuing his private vendetta against the forces of evil in the Australian outback. It is the second film in the series that portrays the post-apocalyptic world. Evil, like everything else, has needed time to recover. In The Road Warrior punk-styled roadsters with homicidal tendencies had organized into tribes. In Beyond Thunderdome, evil graduates to cities...
...least a six-inch heel. Not knowing that it belonged to one of my roommate's girlfriends, my mom first took a close look at my bed and, noticing that the mess on the matteress held only one inebriated soul, she slowly scowled around the room for that evil being that had corrupted her invaluable son. Not finding anything in the room, she gathered enough courage to open the closet slowly, expecting to find the culprit. Disappointed only to find my laundry, she was resigned to believing that the evil corrupter had escaped her moral net. Of course, when...
...like pornography, terrorist television, the graphic unfolding of evil on camera, sells. During the hostage crisis, network news ratings rose markedly. But this fascination has its price. Lot's wife fixed her gaze on evil and turned to salt...