Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ancient Chinese thought they were celestial brooms wielded by the gods to sweep the heavens free of evil. In the West they were believed to presage the fall of Jerusalem, the death of monarchs and such anomalies as two-headed calves. The Norman Conquest of England was attributed to the 1066 flyby of Halley's, history's most famous comet, which has been linked to everything from Julius Caesar's assassination to the defeat of Attila the Hun. Told that Earth would pass through Halley's tail during its 1910 visit, many Americans panicked and bought gas masks and "comet...
...capacity for indifference and criminal behavior dwells in all of us, but evil can thrive only under evil leadership. Amid all this finger pointing, who is left off the hook? Adolf Hitler. LISA WALLERSTEIN Livermore, California...
...were way off with the comment "One lesson of the wartime experience is that in a conflict between good and evil, neutrality is morally indefensible." Since when has this been true? While it is important to stand up for justice, neutrality in the sense of pacifism has always been morally defensible, as taught by great moral leaders, including Jesus, Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi. JEDIDIAH J. PALOSAARI Pasadena, California...
...editorial "The Hill of Evil Counsel" (March 8) Mr. Adam J. Levitin provides a masterpiece of factual distortions and occasional convenient omissions. Levitin asserts that Israel is correct under international law to build anywhere in Jerusalem; he asks rhetorically: "What other nation in the world is criticized for building a new neighborhood in its capital...
...course, the potential for evil is infinitely greater. But there will be no stopping that either. Ban human cloning in America, as in England, and it will develop on some island of Dr. Moreau. The possibilities are as endless as they are ghastly: human hybrids, clone armies, slave hatcheries, "delta" and "epsilon" sub-beings out of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World...