Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members should be avoided unless the matter bears directly on the principle of academic freedom or the preservation of a democratic society on which free universities depend. President Bok derives his rationale from the doctrine of institutional neutrality. He means not neutrality in the pejorative sense of collaboration with evil through passivity, but neutrality in the strict sense of refraining from the use of "non-academic methods such as divesting stock, boycotting suppliers, or issuing formal political statements on political issues...
...concedes that "there could be little assurance under authoritarian rule" that scientific education "might have eventually served to strengthen freedom and human dignity." Of course, notes Bok, "Subsequent events made it impossible ever to know whether the institute would have served as a force for good or for evil. Years of effort came to nothing beyond a jumble of half-completed buildings near the shores of the Caspian Sea, deserted monuments to the thwarted ambition of the Shah...
...merely private or tribal venture (stealing herds, fetching Helen from Troy) burgeoned into dense public spectacles, whole civilizations on the march The issues came to be territory or wealth or power or security or sometimes some thing darker and more confused: vast error (World War I), vast ego and evil (World...
...worse: war in the past has been constructive and necessary sometimes-one reason why it is so morally difficult to know what to do with it now in a nuclear age. The Battle of Salamis saved the Mediterranean for Greek civilization. World War II aligned good against evil more neatly than life has come to expect...
...while the pressure to get those term papers in now may not have hurt the Crimson yesterday, the evil spectre of upcoming exams may damage the team's chances in the national championships, starting Saturday...