Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also untrue that a ludicrous characterization of Ed Foo Yung makes him innocuous. Gross depictions of Asians as evil and subhuman have contributed to the condoning of Japanese internment during WWII, attrocities of the massacre at MyLai, and recent creation of the Gook Klux Klan in the United States...
...Solzhenitsyn, crying eloquent crocodile tears over Afghanistan and Eastern Europe, would attribute it all to 63 years of evil Communism rather than old Russian imperialism. The fact is that for some 800 years the Russian state and its people-in search of ports, good lands, natural resources and "defensible borders"-have been "liberating" others at every possible opportunity. Communism has merely provided the Soviets with a new banner under which to march...
...ghetto of his youth or such physical relics of slavery as the old factory he describes in his 1979 volume American Journal: "[In] the tidy ruins of a sugar mill./ More than cane was crushed. But I am tired today of history, its patina'd cliches of endless evil...
...Watergate, 1976 turned into a vast star-spangled ceremony of self-forgiveness. Later came certain movies (Midnight Express and The Deer Hunter, for example) that were fascinating in their allegory: each portrayed American youth abroad, wholesome and handsome and lovable, yet in the grips of foreigners as evil as reptiles. This winter, Americans have been inclined to think that reality (whether in Tehran or Bogota) has confirmed the allegory. U.S. citizens are held hostage far from home; the dangerous and primitive outer world does not play by the rules, it seems. The Soviet Union rolls over Afghanistan with no more...
...tough winter for American morale, the Olympic hockey was a lovely diversion. Still, the moment was connected in some deeper ways to the emergence of a new patriotic impulse in America. It seems to many that the villains have moved overseas again; fewer Americans are transfixed by any evil within. They have the patriotism of outraged innocence (contaminated somewhat by association with the Shah and by the tales of SAVAK tortures). Americans, for so long vaguely depressed by endless quarrels among themselves, now find they are in an unexpected kinship of common interest and travail...