Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think on my feet," he says. "You have six days to shoot 50 pages of script. TV is a well-oiled machine. Either you roll with it or it rolls over you." He rolled, all right: within three years he had directed his first TV movie, Duel, about an evil driverless truck bent on crushing a mild motorist on the endless blacktop of the Southwest. Shot in twelve days for $300,000, Duel went on to earn Universal $9 million when it was released to theaters in Europe...
...cogency of their own. Discussing what he perceives as the modern tendency to appeal to government to solve all ills, including governmental ones, he writes that "government, trusted and feared, obeyed and avoided, revered and disdained, had become very much like a religion. Its role was to confront evil for the rest of us." Reeves' reporting and analysis compare well with Tocqueville's own, which is to say they are first-rate. His journey through a middle-aged nation that Tocqueville saw in its youth took him through uneven terrain somewhere between smugness and despair, among a population...
...enterprise. Viewed in this light, "neutrality"--even of the strictly defined type--becomes a facade for vested interests. If Harvard were to balance its arguably defensible investments or gifts with strong institutional stands against social injustice, thereby making it clear that it does not mean to consent to evil, perhaps Bok's argument would hold water. But the acrobatics displayed by the Corporation this spring only buttress the conclusion that Harvard proceeds institutionally from prudence rather than morality...
...marked the anniversary with a special Mass before 500,000 pilgrims gathered on the esplanade in front of the shrine, the Pope had a second escape to be grateful for. His words were somber, as if reflecting the violence of the night before as well as the "menace of evil" he saw spreading through the world. He called on the Madonna for deliverance "from famine and war . . . from sin against the life of man from its very beginning . . . from hatred . . . from every kind of injustice in the life of society." He asked for prayers for his upcoming trip to Britain...
...Christianity must die," he wrote in 1954, "because it is actually a battle between Christ and the anti-Christ." But in 1979 Graham seemed to view the situation in a different light. A vision of the world destroyed by a nuclear Armageddon replaced Communism as the greatest evil. And it was this revelation that was on display during Graham's appearance last week at a Kremlin-approved anti-nuclear conference in Moscow-a series of sermons, meetings and dinners that seemed to dazzle and delude the globetrotting evangelist. "In the U.S., only a millionaire could afford caviar," Graham noted...