Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gary Bauer view Powell as a liberal and media darling who will use the nomination to halt the Gingrich revolution. But after Weyrich labeled Powell "our enemy" in a letter to moral-values maven Bill Bennett, he countered with a five-page letter portraying Powell as a lesser evil, on the grounds that pro-life conservatives would have a better chance to reduce abortions under Powell than under Clinton. Early in October, Bennett sent Powell articles on how to curtail abortions without a constitutional amendment. Some conservatives were quietly pleased last week when Powell, who had described himself as firmly...
...Professor West bracketed some inconvenient moral concerns that threatened to keep him out of the march. He chose to ignore the evil--not to mention lunacy--that was being espoused from the dais which he graced with his presence. Professor West seemed to be saying not simply that race matters--race is the only thing that matters...
...Whenever injustice prevails, we must act immediately," Wised said. "If we had reacted immediately in the former there would be no war. We cannot give evil another...
Atwood saves herself from the feminist/political trap because as an artist, she remains fascinated by subversiveness, avoiding a man-evil, woman-good dichotomy. The poet is interested, instead, in the duality of the individual, and especially the female, self. She articulates this well in "The Loneliness of the Military Historian," describing a female scholar's fascination with the "masculine...
...drug of choice is much less threatening; it's old movies. For he's also the kind of film geek who can identify Rio Bravo from a few snippets overheard on the TV set in another room, or mouth all the dialogue from the last scene of Touch of Evil as he sits entranced before the screen in a revival house...