Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Elizabeth Norment makes a sultry autocrat, ever-cool and competent. Although she has to strain her voice a bit to carry off "the Ballad of the Lily of Hell," she infuses the number with an energy and viciousness that recalls--for a moment--Threepenny Opera's brilliant evocation of evil...
...Yankees are overpaid, but so are the Red Sox and the members of the LPGA and all of the other people who spend their adulthood hitting, chasing and throwing things for money. The Yankees are no more evil than any other organization because they reward their gladiators on a particularly ridiculous scale. There is little honor in the business of baseball; the honor is on the field, where the Yankees strut with pride and the Red Sox drown in tragedy...
That moment was the bitter aftermath of World War II. Exhausted Europe, shaken by the absolute evil Adolf Hitler seemed to represent and by the paralyzing fear of nuclear annihilation, had been delivered not into peace but into the ambiguous stalemate of the cold war. Looking for guidance when most moral values seemed questionable and all ideals suspect, the postwar generation found solace in the austere arms of existentialism. Sartre did not invent the term, and he owed a heavy intellectual debt to more profound European thinkers, notably the opaque German Philosopher Martin Heidegger. But in Sartre's prose...
McGill said, "The real evil that the CIA has let loose on us is that by engaging in these sort of activities without formal guidelines, they have raised a level of paranoid suspicion in all the universities...
...order to understand this hellish confusion, Syberberg demands an intellectual involvement with Hegel, Schiller, Nietzsche, Wagner, as well as German history from Ludwig I. With this background, with the physical patience to sit through a seven-hour abstraction, one can understand the twists and evil that forged the Nazi ideology from German culture, but that understanding quickly fades back into confusion as Syberberg asks, "Was he [Hitler] too made in God's image?" Invariably, as the title implies, Adolph Hitler is related to everyone, and the most important effect of Our Hitler is the introspection it forces, the realization that...