Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HORRIBLE MENTAL DISORDER," "a satanic deviance," and "an unspeakable evil." For much of American history the lifestyles of one-tenth of our population were thus fallaciously maligned. During the last 15 years American homosexuals "coming out of the closet" have finally gained a handful of civil rights, putting them well on their way to legal equality. But recent chilling developments threaten both these hard-won gains and a far more basic right--life itself...
Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius, which identifies Caravaggio as the first avant-garde artist. Our time, with its craving for rapid and unnerving change in the look of art, was bound to love Caravaggio. He was called an evil genius, an anti-Michelangelo; his work was compared to an overpeppered stew, and it became a favorite pretext for centrist finger wagging in the 17th century...
...rock but disavow the drugs and sexual permissiveness that are associated with it. "The people who buy my records like danceable, modern music, but they don't want to feel guilty supporting music with trashy lyrics," says Steve Taylor, 27, who sings his own songs. "Rock is associated with evil, but that is guilt by association. Music is music, and it is the vehicle of expression for my generation...
...make a truly effective symbolic statement. The symbolic value of divestiture would consist of a "headline splash" one time, and one time only. Furthermore, the absurd selectivity shown by divestiture advocates is truly appalling. If Harvard were to divest of all stock in companies which profit from profound "evil." It might be reduced to holding only domestically-chartered savings and loan stock. Everything from stock in companies which deal with the Soviet Union. Chile, EI Salvador, and Iran (among many others), or make nuclear and other response, to U.S. Government securities issued in the last five years (which largely financed...
...Reagan Administration's intervention in Nicaragua is an "evil war" impeding the Sandinista government's humanitarian efforts for reform, a member of the country's legislative assembly last night told a 150-person audience at the Law School...