Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little more than aspirins administered to a patient with a life-threatening illness. In his view, the very existence of nuclear weapons carries with it the unavoidable possibility of their use, which in turn would very probably topple us into the abyss; therefore nuclear weapons represent an absolute evil, an ever present threat of total death embedded in the political life of our planet. Insofar as our traditional ("pre-nuclear") notions of national security and sovereignty depend on maintaining and threatening to use nuclear weapons, those notions are obsolete and, more to the point, dangerous. They must be recognized...
...fact, the whole political context in which the nuclear dilemma has come about is largely missing in Schell's book. He obviously regards the threat and evil of nuclear war as so immediate and so overwhelming that they eclipse all other threats and evils, apparently including those embodied by the Soviet system and Soviet behavior. The trouble with that line of thinking is that it could lead some readers to the sort of simple-minded defeatism summarized by the slogan "Better Red than dead." Better still to be neither Red nor dead, and that too is a choice available...
...should therefore make Israelis take stock and reassess their country's intransigence. By basing their nation's survival upon military force and repression, Israelis are skirting future disaster--and risking the betrayal of the Zionist principles of social justice upon which their nation was founded. In other words, "the evil will to live" may ultimately bring about willful self-destruction. Israel's true security--its liberation--can only be maintained if the country relieves itself of a burden it cannot carry, a burden which is crushing the Jewish state. That is a risky course to advocate. But surely the events...
...misidentifications, adultery, and murder. As Pepita Passionelle, Wagman expressively plays the emotionally fluctuating role of a neurotic actress. In one scene, she breaks into an uncontrollable hysteria then suddenly reverts to her previous composure. Samuels as Camembert, La Passionelle's husband, portrays the scheming, jealous husband with the proverbial evil, insane glimmer in his eye. Camembert is madly jealous of his wife's affections for La Mole, played by Randolph. Randolph, as the foppish lover, saunters around the stage and monopolizes it with his highly stylized movements. The scenes between La Mole and La Passionelle as they plot to throw...
...credibility was on the line with this car-theft case, and he couldn't live with the idea that there was a crook out there who wasn't being caught." To Kennedy, explains another coworker, "black is black, white is white, and good should triumph over evil...