Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remarkable Americans who drew up the Constitution believed in man's inherent evil and selfishness, but possessed the foresight to realize that man would operate best through a system of democratic rule...
...Union. Not that Forster would have approved of Philby or Burgess; the event merely shows that personal loyalty can sound prettier than it is. In The Third Man, Graham Greene created a wholly honest hero, honesty being a tenet of good friendship, who is a loyal friend to an evil man. In the end, Holly Martins betrays the child-murderer Harry Lime because he comes to value the friendship of mankind, or, more abstractly, the friendship of doing right, over that of a single person. That, too, takes guts. Huck Finn, who had both God and friendship on his side...
...Among the players, Hutt's Titus grows in stature as the bereaved father, and Galloway's Tamora is a one-woman "wilderness of tigers." Devoid of a moral center, Titus Andronicus nonetheless exerts a perverse fascination, for it glows with the phosphorescence of evil...
...idea originated as a reinterpretation of the Last Supper from a feminine perspective, with women as guests, not cooks, participants, not waiters. Where 13 men sat down for the Last Supper, 13 women formed, in legend, a witches coven--a symbol of female power, albeit evil power. But as Chicago's vision expanded, so did the size of her party. Before she was done inviting women from all of history, it had grown to a three-sided affair with 39 guests...
...Evil...