Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fear that Bundy spoke of is the fear that we are so similar to him. He was sane, charming, intelligent and yet pure evil. There is nothing in his life that we can point to as a reason for why this man is such an aberration. Ted Bundy could be our parent, our lover, our friend--or even ourselves...
Moral reflection, in Goya's prints and not a few of his paintings, moves from being a philosophical exercise into a sort of frenzy, a despairing assault on a world of terminal evil. Greed, whoring, pederasty, witchcraft and the religious bigotry that was its mirror image, the brutality of the low and the myopic arrogance of the high, and above all the limitless cruelties inflicted in the name of orthodoxy (by the Inquisition) and political conquest (by the invading French and their guerrilla opponents): these possess him as they have possessed no other artist before or since. Seen through...
...angry questions at a government spokesman, to the visible discomfort of a dour and silent Chancellor Helmut Kohl. "Once again our history has caught up with us," said Norbert Gansel, arms-control spokesman for the opposition Social Democratic Party, referring to the country's Nazi heritage. "Once again the evil, blinkered German is there in the cartoons and the editorials, and the federal government has made an ugly contribution...
...clear that the pro-life movement is here to stay," said Law, head of the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. "There is no way in which the human spirit will long endure a moral evil like abortion. Those of us who recognize abortion as the taking of innocent human life do not find that with the passage of time and millions of more deaths we are less committed. Far from it. I find myself today more convinced than ever that the killing must stop...
...fact, about the only thing that has warmed up during the Reagan years is our relationship with the Soviet Union. Though seemingly in contradiction to his early statements calling the U.S.S.R. an "evil empire," Reagan seized the opportunity Mikhail Gorbachev's rise to power presented and negotiated real arms reductions with the Soviets...