Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...INTEREST of A Separate Peace lies in the subtle irony of friends trapped in hatred. In Peace Breaks Out, the protagonists are bitter foes from the outset. Hochschwender, the loud, obnoxious neo-Nazi, and Wexford, the pathologically evil, power-obsessed editor of the school newspaper, emerge from the first meeting of their American History class determined to destroy each other. The reader can identify with neither character, and their rivalry quickly becomes trivial and boring...
Instead of forcing the reader to consider the implications of evil, Knowles succeeds only in oversimplifying it as an ubiquitous force. Evil is inescapable, but the author shirks his responsibility to explain why it emerges periodically in a deranged youngster or a mass murderer...
...this week's cover story were faced with the challenge of reporting opposing viewpoints that are equally idealistic and heartfelt. Says Los Angeles Correspondent Diane Coutu: "Perhaps more than any other story, this one reminded me that the most difficult moral choices are seldom ones between good and evil, but almost always between good and the lesser good." Joyce Leviton interviewed pro-choice activists in Atlanta and experienced one of the many ironies in the abortion fight: during a call to the vice president of the Georgia Abortion Rights Action League, she found herself listening to the cooing...
Moral crusades, like hard cases, tend to make bad law, and abortion is an example of both. Above all, abortion is a question of conscience-inherently a personal matter. Should those who deeply oppose abortion simply ignore what they believe is the spread of an intolerable evil? No, there is always a place for moral debate in society. Can morality be legislated? Yes, it can and often is, enforcing codes of conduct that society values. But morality cannot, and should not, be legislated where no consensus exists-and that is surely the case with abortion. Americans fashioned a more perfect...
Swop by Ken Jenkins. Folk tales have retained their appeal through the centuries partly because they are parables of good and evil. The man of good in Swop is H.E. Rowe (Ken Jenkins), an 81-year-old who communes with nature, wears hawk masks and goes "buck-dancin' " with his favorite deer. The man of evil is Lanny (Robert Schenkkan), a mean-spirited drunk and a cancerous coward of a man who relishes dashing a kitten to death against a wall. A surprisingly animated wooden Indian presides over the pair's rendezvous with destiny...