Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York Times, in a lovely coda to its editorial titled CLONING FOR GOOD OR EVIL, advises that "society will need to sort through what is acceptable and what is the nightmare beyond...
There is a theory held by some criminologists that evil eventually melts out of the body. That if you warehouse a man in jail long enough, he will become harmless. Youth's passions dim. Perversion's fires cool. Old felons may not exactly reform but are defanged by time. It is this theory that Lawrence Singleton contested last week, after his bloody fashion...
...prosecuted a futile war in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia against an invisible enemy, in the process destroying tens of thousands of American and Vietnamese lives. The only passion Richard Nixon had for his times was an evil...
...harangue Nixon after his death as we did during his life? Why is a bad, dead man more likable than a bad, live one? Why bother to forgive those whose actions were so evil? Why should we not hold Nixon, and for that matter Deng, to their dirty lives as enemies of students...
...makes more sense to relate his work, in all its extreme, inward-directed fantasies of evil and innocence, to Darger's main lifeline, the Catholic faith. Catholic iconography, as anyone knows who is even briefly exposed to it (and Darger was marinated in its kitsch forms for 70 years), is suffused with Massacres of the Innocents, scenes of the roasting, flaying and disemboweling of idealized martyrs, sinners in hellfire and visions of a countervailing Paradise. Rummaging back through his fantasies for redemption of his own wretchedly maimed childhood, Darger was able to bind up his wounds with his religious fixations...