Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans are in some ways a uniquely self-conscious people. If they do not feel good about themselves, they feel awful about themselves. America becomes Amerika, evil in the world, or else an overgrown incompetent. But perhaps Americans have developed a more mature appreciation of themselves. They exhibited last week something of the sweet, intense idealism that they have demonstrated as the Olympic torch has made its way across the U.S. to Los Angeles, and some of the mellowed fervor that they felt on Memorial Day when an Unknown from the Viet Nam War was installed at Arlington National Cemetery...
Strouse believes that Henry Sr.'s refusal to recognize the existence of evil--particularly in women--as the most powerful stress on Alice. Because his own wife was a model of self-denying maternity and had "rescued" him from a troubled youth, Alice's father insisted on idealizing women without recognizing their potential talents. Men struggled with and conquered evil, women were born above it. Strouse conjectures...
...murder of the Sikhs is yet another tragic example of bloodshed motivated by religious "fervor." Terms like Sikh, Hindu, Jew, Christian and Muslim ring hollow when they are used to sanctify acts of violence. The greatest evil lies not in what religion does to men but in what men do in the name of religion...
...news. "Jackson's silence stuns the heart and diminishes his noble cause," wrote Timothy Hagan, co-chairman of Mondale's campaign in Ohio, in the Washington Post. "Jackson may have lost his moral compass ... A campaign for the presidency that apparently cannot distinguish between good and evil cannot command the respect it seeks." Wrote Columnist Jimmy Breslin: "All Jackson has to do is to condemn Farrakhan and walk away from him. And that will be the last time anybody will bother to report on what Farrakhan has to say. Yet Jackson says nothing." Breslin wondered whether Jackson...
...apolitical poetry group that meets each week in Buenos Aires. They have been denounced to the police, and a surveillance has been mounted. The dread nether god Hades decrees that twelve of the poets shall be seized by a parapolice murder gang. Can Hades be tricked into abandoning his evil intention by the underworld nymph Mintho and Hermes, the lust distracted messenger god? Are the gods, in fact taking proper care of their silly, self-important human charges? Good questions, written it seems with a shaking hand, but proof read perhaps with a hopeful, some what unpracticed smile...