Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revolution has begun, and as usually happens with revolutions, nobody can agree on where it is going or how it will end. Nils Nilsson, director of the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International, believes the personal computer, like television, can "greatly increase the forces of both good and evil." Marvin Minsky, another of M.I.T.'s computer experts, believes the key significance of the personal computer is not the establishment of an intellectual ruling class, as some fear, but rather a kind of democratization of the new technology. Says he: "The desktop revolution has brought the tools that only professionals have...
...Year one of the engineers or entrepreneurs who masterminded this technological revolution, but no one person has clearly dominated those turbulent events. More important, such a selection would obscure the main point. TIME'S Man of the Year for 1982, the greatest influence for good or evil, is not a man at all. It is a machine: the computer...
...Huyard clan, who, like most of their Amish neighbors, drive horse-and-buggy rigs and wear homemade black garb, has cleaved to its faith and offered the accused killer forgiveness. As he painted a shed on his hilltop property, Isaac Huyard cited the Bible: "Resist not evil, but overcome evil with good." David E. Huyard, 75, Naomi's uncle and the family patriarch, suggested that the murder is symptomatic of a growing rebelliousness among Amish and Mennonite youth, who are taught to live peacefully and according to the Bible. "We're being tested and tried in many different...
...this way: America is the Promised Land, the place of safety and redemption. Rick Blaine has been cast out of America, for some original sin that is as obscure as the one that cost Adam and Eve their Eden. Rick flees to Europe, which is the fallen world where Evil (the Nazis, Satan) is loose. He meets and beds the widow of Idealism. Idealism (meaning Victor) is dead, or thought dead, but it rises from the grave. Rick, losing Ilsa, falls obliviously into despair and selfishness: "I stick my neck out for nobody." He becomes an idiot in the original...
About Casablanca there clings a quality of lovely, urgent innocence. Those who cherish the movie may be nostalgic for moral clarity, for a war in which good and evil were obvious and choices tenable. They may be nostalgic for a long-lost connection between the private conscience and the public world. Casablanca was released three years before the real moment of the fall of the modern world: 1945. That year, the side of good dropped nuclear bombs on cities full of civilians, and the world discovered Auschwitz. We have not yet developed the myths with which to explain such matters...