Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Beneath Carpaccio's dragon lies a kind of Bosnian litter: half-devoured bodies . skulls . busy, slithering snakes. The painting St. George and the Dragon is a vision of evil perfectly at home in the late 20th century, even though the artist imagined it almost 500 years ago. It gleams like a premonition in the garage-dim Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni in Venice. What is missing from the picture in 1995, of course, is the St. George part -- the rescue: Evil impaled, Good's shining blond revenge...
...noise from Bosnia, an hour's hop across the Adriatic. (Some sporting Italians, it is said, fly over for the weekend, hoping to see some shooting and maybe even to do some violence themselves.) Nineteen-year-old Tarja Krehic from Bosnia told the others about the mysterious onset of evil in her neighborhood: "Hate came, I don't know from where." A 19-year-old from Kenya, Kim Muhota, reported that in the streets of Nairobi, children are known to wield discarded hypodermic needles (carrying God knows what viruses of doom) and threaten to jab passersby unless given money...
...your attention," says TIME critic R.Z. Sheppard. "It's friendly but still has teeth." The author populates "Beach Music" (Doubleday; 628 pages; $27.50) with memorable characters, but unfortunately burdens them with the entire bloody history of the 20th century. "Attempts to relate the madness of Vietnam to Hitler's evil are loopy," says Sheppard, and so is some of Conroy's rhetoric. The Pat Conroy who wrote "The Water Is Wide" and "The Great Santini" is conspicuously absent here, leaving "Beach Music" as nothing more than what is certain to be this summer's best-selling snack.Previous TIME DailyCampaign...
...entirely different tone, Baker Charmedthe class with his witty Ivy Oration, in which adazzled Luke Skywalker joins the ranks of Harvardstudents to fight of an evil Darth Vader whois--what else--a Yalie...
...difficult it has been, in this land of the sentimental and the dramatic, to grapple with the forms of unmerited harm and undeserved pain," West said." If we don't come to terms with the problem of evil, then this precarious and precious experiment with democracy cannot stay afloat...