Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Persian Kings Darius the Great and Xerxes. Even more urgently, as a grandson and the last descendant in the male line of the prophet Zoroaster, Cyrus feels obliged to argue theology, to devise an acceptable theory for the creation of the universe and to account for the existence of evil within...
...dark is one thing, but to see the light is quite another. Images of whiteness can be terrible too, of course (the white whale, whited sepulchers, death on a pale horse), but these are fairly concrete things compared with the general designation of black as the color of evil or chaos. Young John Grimes is named for dirt. He observes the dirt around him, and recalls the book of Revelations (22: 11): "He who is filthy, let him be filthy still...
Quotas for admittance would, however, supply the fastest way of remedying society's past mistakes. Once remedying the evil of ignorance is recognized as a necessity, as Leon does, one must adopt the quickest way of achieving equality of educational opportunity for all. If the bond of love could replace self-interest, quotas and other affirmative action tools would pose no problems...
...thoughtful hands the tale of Aladdin has been a dandy thriller, "an adolescent's dream of revenge," as Mayer points out in a program note. But Mayer eliminates much of the suspense: Aladdin's difficulties are solved handily by two genies, and the lad swiftly and stoically executes the evil magician, who has been drugged by the Princess. So what's the point? Aladdin, the Sultan explains at the end of the play, got lucky. But he measured up to his luck, he gave it a good home. Throughout the play. Aladdin's spirit is large and independent enough...
Mayer's script is a farrago of styles, all of them challenging, from the evil magician's bloated Miltonian opening speech to the Scholar Wu's delicate (and suitably alcoholic) Eastern lyricism in a poem called "Kite Fight," which he recites while being whipped. (The scene is stylized and relatively painless, the Scolar Wu seeming to leave his body far behind, the onlookers emitting the sound of the lash.) Our bodies are kites in a kite fight, he says--the kites a long...