Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more. I'm a fair weather fan now, and I will happily carry on my back all the evil connotations that go along with that title. I will cheer for them when (if) they win, but only during the 11 p.m. news, after the verdict...
...cocktail-party coaster than as a reference. Glossy and overpriced, it conceals choppy, unimaginative writing behind a startling cover. Perfect for Uncle Sid and Aunt Selma. Despite its shortcomings, however, the book offers revealing first-person descriptions of the fear war can bring without gunshots and the dull evil of obedience without purpose...
...fashioned word, dignified and stubbornly cherished by an old-fashioned man of principle. In a lifetime dedicated to achieving full civil rights for black Americans, Wilkins was sustained by a determined optimism and a steady faith that "there are more people who want to do good than do evil." He spent half a century with the oldest, largest and most influential civil rights organization, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 22 of those years as executive director. His "crowning glory," he said, was the 1954 Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education, which overturned the doctrine...
...lobbying that ultimately achieved passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. During the turmoil of the '60s, younger, more militant blacks assailed Wilkins as an Uncle Tom, and the N.A.A.C.P. as stodgy and middle class. Wilkins, true to his principles, denounced black separatism and violence as no less evil than segregation and lynching. "Black power," he said, "can only mean black death...
...frenzied and reckless campaigns for ideological purity in China. Though the more moderate post-Mao leadership in Peking had repeatedly promised not to resume such repression, the official press has recently bristled with attacks on people who are said to hold "corrosive, erroneous ideas" and to fan "aimless, evil winds." Having lived through the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976 and other waves of terror against individualism, many Chinese are bracing themselves for a new political campaign designed to impose obedience to the Communist Party's dictates...