Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extremely difficult to peg exactly why we separate many foreign policy issues into good and evil. One obvious reason is that it makes it easier to swallow complex concepts. But are Americans inherently more stupid than the rest of the world? Not likely...
...children. Old , industries grow feeble. Families dissolve. The waste. Illiteracy--here, where everyone is supposed to go to college. Ignorance, televised superstition, intolerance, race hatred, the discarding of the past. Almost every cause of shame is a consequence of the freedom that we celebrate above all things. Take the evil with the good, but keep the freedom; that's our motto. The trick is to spread the bounty of freedom around to correct the evil. When there is an effort to do that, one has something to celebrate. And still, can you pin it down? Sitting cross-legged...
...security leak, the Feds apply a very broad mop to the drips, insisting that the idealists are terrorists, thus gaining an informal license to kill. Yet even here Brickman cannot resist his best impulses; he makes his villain (the subtle John Mahoney) more a man befuddled under pressure than evil incarnate. And he permits Mathewson to evolve from absentminded professor into a hero who is morally all present and accounted...
Melendez continues, "There's a message that needs to be brought from the academic community to the Christian community which is that you should celebrate your religion in the tradition of the larger pluralistic culture which we're a part, rather than celebrate it as a crusade against the evil that dwells in everything that you're not a part...
Well, okay, so he wasn't. Since Greek and Roman times, though, one of the most powerful myths in all of Western culture has been the werewolf, that half-man, half-beast symbolic of the evil that lurks within the hearts of men. But little did young Marguerite and Jean know that one day, some 383 years later, their alleged skirmish would introduce Tom Mueller's History and Literature thesis on the werewolf legend throughout history...