Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Which is, approximately, what I believed before last Sunday. Sure, I'm more convinced today that many of our urban criminals aren't intrinsically evil, just cornered. Being mugged doesn't really make you scrap your outlook or change your politics, today's pundits notwithstanding. But it does make you sit back and think about just what can happen when two lives collide. That, in itself, is something of an epiphany...
...Critics claimed a monopoly on the desire for peace, ridiculing and condemning all other concerns as subterfuges for psychotic commitment to killing for its own sake. The systematic undermining of trust short-circuited a process of maturing. It fostered the illusions that all frustrations in the world reflected the evil intent of America's leaders, that what ailed America was a loss of its moral purity and that our difficulties could be set right by a return to simple principles...
...view that Nixon was the incarnation of evil is as wrong as the adulation of his more fervent admirers. What gave Nixon his driven quality was the titanic struggle among the various personalities within him. And there was never a permanent victor between his dark and sensitive sides. Now one, now another personality predominated, creating an impression of menace, of torment, of unpredictability and finally of enormous vulnerability...
...holiday up the River Orb. Trouble begins with a peevish squabble between Keith (Robin Bowerman), who organized the party, and his wife June (Carole Boyd). The next morning the Hadforth Bounty, Britain in miniature, starts its uncertain journey to Armageddon Bridge-where, as in the Bible, good and evil will meet in final conflict...
...compromise and to blackmail delegates to the Democratic National Convention. Garment said the "sordid mess" had many dimensions. It could not have developed without the cooperation of the highest levels of the Administration. Garment thought that Special Counsel to the President Charles W. Colson had probably been the "evil genius" behind it. Yet the scale of the wrongdoing really made it impossible to imagine that Assistants to the President H.R. (Bob) Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, whom the press had nicknamed "the Germans," had been unaware. And if Haldeman and Ehrlichman were involved, it was nearly inconceivable that the President...