Word: evil
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...first people to receive Peninsula's scorn are all those who are non-heterosexual. The Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Student Association (BGLSA) and its sometimes political arm, the Strategic Offense Society, are deemed evil because they are "manifestly opposed to traditional Christian values," not to mention "their never-ending quest for special privileges...such as office space." Christian values according to whom? And where in the Christian Bible is hatred considered laudatory? Isn't the Golden Rule to "love thy neighbor?" It seems that Peninsula's world view, like that of the Catholic Church during the Spanish Inquisition, comprehends legitimacy...
Ever since Jodie Foster faced off against Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, Hollywood has been in love with the image of imperiled Good staring down incarcerated Evil. Just Cause, Copycat and Dead Man Walking all exploit a dramatic tension that is both elemental and cost-efficient; it requires only a bare room and an actor able to summon some malefic grandeur...
...with men off at war and women taking their place in the factories, Hollywood turned paranoid. Film noir made the black widow an embodiment of evil as seductive as she was destructive. What man wouldn't want to go to hell with Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice? What man wouldn't prefer hell to two days in a motel room with the spectacularly shrewish Ann Savage in Detour...
Richard Zoglin in his review of the West [TELEVISION Sept. 16] says "intertribal hatreds" marred relations among Native Americans. But intertribal warfare isn't really a matter of hatred. The tribal view sees ethics in terms of harmony vs. disharmony, not good vs. evil. Hunting is a part of this harmony, and so is war. Thus Lakota warriors went into battle shouting, "It's a good day to die!" The Judeo-Christian ethic says someone must be at fault if there is war. But tribal ethics recognizes no-fault war. MARK MIDBON Mesa, Arizona...
From the moment he was arrested for the murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas three years ago, Richard Allen Davis has seemed determined to become a poster boy for evil. Swaggering, unrepentant, Davis smiled often during his trial as details of the kidnapping and killing brought tears to many in the San Jose, California, courtroom. Last week, at the sentencing hearing that followed his conviction in June, Davis reached a startling new low when, moments before being sentenced to death, he accused Polly's father of molesting the girl...