Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inhabitants by Europeans is the broad theme of this enormously ambitious project, and the first two volumes, The Ice-Shirt, about Greenland, and Fathers and Crows, about the settling of Quebec, presented the author's bleak argument with stinging force. What he argues for is a vision of absolute evil: civilization, native cultures not excepted, is a pestilence, and mankind is a monstrous curse laid upon nature...
...Goldis people, who revered the tiger as an ancestor and as god of the wild regions. In Hindu mythology the goddess Durga rides the tiger. And Chang Tao-ling, a patriarch of the Chinese philosophy of Taoism, also mounts a big cat in his quest to fight evil and seek the essence of life. In the English-speaking world nearly every schoolchild who has ever studied poetry is familiar with William Blake's attempt to frame with words the tiger's "fearful symmetry." India's Valmik Thapar, a student of tiger lore, says British and Dutch colonists sometimes killed...
...epigram contained in Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche writes, "Objections, digressions, gay mistrust, the delight in mockery are signs of health: everything unconditional belongs in pathology." In her most recent appearance at Harvard, controversial scholar Camille Paglia stated unequivocally that "Offensiveness is an American right...
American society has come to recognize that "child abuse" means more than physical violence. But in the sports world, where frustrated parents can vicariously live their fantasies through their children, our culture has come to accept the "Little League Parents Syndrome" as an unavoidable evil...
...mailroom and made president of Hudsucker Industries when its founder (Charles Durning) commits spectacular suicide. You can imagine either Jimmy Stewart or Eddie Bracken in the part, but Robbins has a tricky modernist charm all his own. And you can just as easily imagine Edward Arnold as the evil genius of the board of directors, Sidney J. Mussburger, although Paul Newman brings a sprightly spite to the role...