Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second novel to be translated into English, Israeli Author Aharon Appelfeld, 49, portrays the arrival of the great evil that became the Holocaust as a series of incremental tremors. Anti-Semitism first manifests itself as that petty annoyance on the train, "bureaucracy gone mad" as one passenger reassures another. Then Bruno's elaborate twelfth birthday party is sobered by the arrival of an actress-relative who has been fired by the National Theater because she is Jewish. The shy young guest of honor watches the adults argue over whether there is truly cause for worry: "Words...
...remove our impurities, and re-shape us as caring men and women. First there must be something to challenge people's assurances that all is right with our country and our world. Vietnam did that on a massive scale, but what Vietnam produced was confusion, alienating people from an evil government but not replacing government policies with anything really different. We don't need confusion, though it is an intermediate step, but a new clarity, a new and hundredfold more energetic vision...
Confusing personal concerns with what is good for the nation has crippled many an Administration, as Jimmy Carter discovered when he refused to acknowledge the evil ways of his debt-laden Budget Director, Bert Lance...
...NICHOLS particularly daring in expressing his own moral sentiments. His great statement on the rise of evil tends rather toward the tautological: "I make no claim to special sensitivity, but I am increasingly aware of a strong negative reaction inside me to people whom I feel, on first meeting, to be in some way negatively directed: to have too large a proportion of malice, or envy, or some other defect that disables their personalities." By necessity, the severest criticisms of the Vatican come not by the design of the author, but rather by the little absurdities that creep through...
...tree, three are the most popular. Some scholars trace the "tannenbaum" back to the fir tree erected by Boniface, the 8th-century English missionary known as the Apostle of Germany, in place of a sacred oak of Odin. Others point to the "paradise" trees of knowledge of good and evil, used as stage props in 15th century German Christmas plays...