Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sobering disappointment of Act II, in which the hero falls in love with a faithless Venetian courtesan. Finally, there is the tragic catharsis of Act III, in which Hoffmann's sincere love for the simple, shy singer Antonia is destroyed by the vicious machinations of the evil Dr. Miracle. Each affair should appear to be more intense than the last...
...words, but dreams nonetheless that perhaps this was the start of some peaceful evolution to a human government. If martial law served any good end, it was to remind the world what almost all of us knew that the soviet system was impermeable to decency, incontrovertible in its evil. In the same way, Sontag's formulation of "the essentially despotic nature of the Communist system (that is, a country any country ruled by a I Leninist Party)" is useful as a reminder of what happened to those who were shouting "Two, three many Vietnams" in 1969 Come...
...isolation. Two schools of thought developed. Liberals treated foreign policy as a subdivision of psychiatry, conservatives as an aspect of theology. Liberals equated relations among states with human relations, emphasizing trust and unilateral gestures of good will. Conservatives saw in foreign policy the eternal struggle of good with evil, a Manichaean conflict that recognized no middle ground and could end only with total victory. Deterrence ran up against liberal ideology and its emotional evocation of peace in the abstract; coexistence grated on the liturgical anti-Communism of the right, for there could be no compromise with the devil...
...Vinci's painting The Last Supper, the scowling Judas is shown with an overturned saltcellar in front of him.) After spilling salt, the spiller had to cast a pinch of it over his left shoulder because the left side was thought to be sinister, a place where evil spirits tended to congregate...
...hard for the good judge to pin any sort of label on himself." Should Ely ever don judicial robes, "he'd be tripped up sooner or later by a case that doesn't fit. Ely on the bench would not be Ely in the book...It would be an evil man who would disregard justice and law to follow his own theory," McGowan says...