Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...readily as zealous student opposition. And with skepticism toward Harvard's South Africa-related investments built into the Corporation, it will be increasingly difficult for Harvard's Fellows to ignore the implications of these holdings, and more unlikely that the controversy will fade away. The Root Of All Evil Harvard's Top 15 Investments IBM $56,900,000 Schlumberger $55,200,000 Exxon $52,600,000 AT&T $51,700,000 Mobil Oil $48,300,000 Standard Oil (Cal.) $45,200,000 Atlantic Richfield $33,000,000 Standard Oil of Indiana $29,500,000 Getty Oil $26,300,000 Superior...
...objectively of Mr. Nixon. He is a ghost come back to haunt us, a reminder of a period of American history whose buried horrors are still in the process of being exhumed. To those who opposed him and the policies and mindset he represented, Nixon personified the banality of evil. He inspired a visceral contempt among students, who counted on him to supply a symbol of arrogance and decadence. The distaste was mutual. "When dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy," Nixon said, equating protest with murder, on the day four students were killed by National Guardsmen at Kent State...
Scattered through The Real War are references to the evil wrought by protesting students--"Unfortunately, America is still suffering from the legacy of the 1960's. A rabid anti-intellectualism swept the nation's campuses then, and fantasy reigned supreme." (Ohhh, so that's what The Movement really was--"rabid anti-intellectualism," let me get that down...
...Shortly thereafter a history of drifting and alcoholism is casually alluded to. This man may not be the usual horror-story victim of the inexplicable. Quite the opposite; one begins to wonder if he might not turn out to be the source of the story's evil instead of its plaything. Then, too, his son's gifts for precognition and telepathy, also quickly established, do not seem to be evidence of demonic possession of the sort that The Exorcist and The Omen have conditioned audiences to expect from pretty children who act strangely...
...novel's power stems from the likelihood that he is sane. This confusion may be irritating on the surface; it also serves the author's purpose perfectly. Doctor Fischer coexists. He chases the very vision of infinite betrayal that will confirm his trust; he pursues evil in the hope of finding its limit, and good on the other side. He meets himself, finally, on that border that Graham Greene long ago plotted for his age. -Paul Gray