Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your immediate surroundings become larger. There's no contradiction." Her most weighty essays, "The Curse of Eve" and "An End to Audience?" perceptively and persuasively detail two of her major concerns: the steady worsening of the publishing and distributing industries as ways to disseminate serious literature, and the subtly "evil" and "supernatural" and generally unsatisfactory female models scattered throughout literature...
...unsavory female characters of various types--from Lady Macbeth and the Furies to "Andromeda chained to her rock." Women in male literature through the ages, she suggests, are seen predominantly as natural forces, parts of the landscape through which the adventurer travels, forces of unthinking good or inhuman, automatic evil...
Though such glimpses into Mafia domestic life are rare, they appear eerily familiar. Indeed, the Mafia princess bears a family resemblance to another victim of unbounded evil, the princess of the Kremlin. In Svetlana Alliluyeva's 1967 memoir Twenty Letters to a Friend, Stalin's daughter tells similar tales of disappearing family friends, and her father often made a show of mourning those he had ordered killed. Svetlana too was forbidden to pursue her chosen career, in this case, literary scholarship, and was denied her first lover, a Jew. Though both daughters ultimately escaped from their palatial prisons...
...some of them), to government officials? As to his argument that the principle of confidentiality must be maintained lest people refuse to reveal sensitive facts and opinions. I pointed out that the FBI was not interested in "facts and opinions in general, nor facts and opinions about Good and Evil in Western Literature, Change and Continuity in History, Citizenship and Its Obligations in Classical Antiquity," but facts and opinions about the political beliefs of particular people, "exactly the kinds of beliefs and opinions which you warned against taking into account in the making of academic appointments." President Bok's position...
...floating chip off their old home planet, Krypton, and landed in Midvale, Ill., where she assumed the identity of a Midwestern teenager. Got that? Anyway, with her muscle-bound relative away on an intergalactic mission, Kara, played by Newcomer Helen Slater, 20, is kept busy battling megabaddies like the evil witch Selena, portrayed by Faye Dunaway, 43. To prepare for her flying scenes, Slater talked with Christopher Reeve, who starred as the airborne hero in Superman I to III. Says Slater: "Once you get past that feeling of being helplessly trapped in a harness and suspended by wires...