Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Very little seems more wrong or more evil than children killing children. One could easily conclude that this shows that there is something very much wrong with our country's moral fabric. But bringing literal fabric into the picture requires a mental leap of some magnitude, and as a cure for our countrys woes, is insultingly simplistic...
...Evil on paper looks impressive (one of mankind's most important words, invested with the dignity of mystery and theology). But evil in actuality, when it touches down on earth like a tornado for a moment--as it did in Weston's visit to the Capitol, or last week in Littleton--may have a style so tacky, so moronic or so indelibly crazy that it gives off a radiant tabloid weirdness. This almost novelistic sheen of the loony makes the tragedies curiously hard to evaluate. The evil effect is evident--innocent blood everywhere; the cause, in the case of Littleton...
There are moments when politics seems a grand calling, but the eruption of evil among schoolchildren isn't one of them, and so a curious and altogether appropriate quiet settled over American politicians in the wake of the nightmare at Columbine High. Not absolute silence, mind you--there's only so much we can expect of our politicians--but quiet: a kind of humility that suggested they knew they had come up against the limits of their trade...
Congratulations to NATO for standing up to a ruthless and evil dictator. Milosevic can be compared with Cambodia's Pol Pot. The Serbs have demonstrated yet again that they are capable only of fighting unarmed civilians. Failure to destroy the Serb war machine will surely destabilize the entire region, the consequences of which may be catastrophic. MICHAEL ALLEN Sutton in Ashfield, England...
Roger Rosenblatt is right: there can be no justice, including financial payments, to compensate for the Holocaust [ESSAY, April 12]. But how can one live with the hopeless assertion that here "injustice prevails"? If we confine the forces of good and evil to this world alone, evil will always win. SUSAN P. KEMPLE Southern Pines...