Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been a nationally prominent one, meaning someone whose most indigestible sentiments have still mostly stopped short of, well, extremism. But how short? The question becomes more than academic now that he is a serious presidential contender. When he derides "the worship of democracy" or calls Martin Luther King "immoral, evil and a demagogue," is Buchanan just pushing the edge of the envelope, or is he tearing it to shreds...
Sometimes this evil nonsense takes the form of language. Sometimes it is a powerful presence that lives just beneath the surface of articulation. Even when it is subarticulate, everyone recognizes it instantly--feels its menace, knows its smell, a radioactive something that registers on the mind's Geiger counter. The signals are unmistakable--the sneer, a semaphore of eyebrows, the "lock-and-load" swagger...
Clint Eastwood says he won't star in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. However, he will direct the tale of a murder set in Savannah, Georgia. Producer Arnold Stiefel, who bought the screen rights for a modest $300,000 before John Berendt's book became a best seller, couldn't be happier: "It's good nobody in Hollywood has time to read...
...professes belief in forgiveness, but he profoundly qualifies this belief. "The millions of injured souls...victimized by the white Americans who controlled and benefitted from American slavocracy, have no moral obligation to, as it were, make the first move on that complicated road toward Christian forgiveness.... Those who perpetrate evil and human devastation on the scale of American slavocracy have a prior duty to assuage their wrongdoing, to redeem their transgression against the human souls of African-Americans...
...HAVE NEVER SEEN A MASS GRAVE AS HORrible as the one shown in the photograph with your article "Unearthing Evil" [WORLD, Jan. 29], about fresh evidence of war crimes in Bosnia. It is a new Holocaust. What is the difference between Bosnian Serbs and Nazis? Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic must be judged for what he has done. IBRAHIM MUNIR Bristol, England...