Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buying consumer goods is not decadent--especially if it makes life more pleasant." On the other hand, the ostracism suffered by Ju highlights the difficulties of introducing capitalist measures into a state that for more than three decades has regarded the unfettered pursuit of money as a source of evil. If prosperity is encouraged in Deng's China, it is still not universally admired...
...opinion that we at least partially condone the apartheid system. If we divest, we will not, as the so-called pragmatists will undoubtedly charge, be engaging in mere moral hand-washing. We will be taking an honorable stance in the face of what is a clear and irremediable evil. When events careen out of control as they have, divestment is both the most and the least Harvard...
...drug smugglers, mob bosses, psychotic youth gangs and smut peddlers who emerge from the underworld each week are the most vividly portrayed evildoers on TV since Eliot Ness squared off against Frank Nitti on The Untouchables. Even more striking, however, is the show's depiction of the temptation that evil presents to basically good men. It is no accident that Crockett and Tubbs frequently go undercover, and seem to blend in perfectly when they do. Moreover, the show's most powerful episodes deal with law-enforcement officials who have gone over to "the other side...
...that news stories about the forthcoming summit meeting should be judged. Reagan and his advisers used to say that summits without well-prepared agendas could be harmful; now his people speak of a "get acquainted" meeting with General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan has said that we cannot trust the evil empire; does this suggest he would not be interested in reaching agreements? That would trouble Europe and many Americans. His people spread the word that a start on relieving international tensions would crown Reagan's career. Gorbachev, with fewer constituencies to mollify or even to answer, is free to take...
...typical American, as his friend William Tecumseh Sherman thought, the incendiary of Atlanta also admitted, "I do not understand him, and I do not believe he understands himself." That was the oddness of Grant. In Hannah Arendt's phrase, Adolf Eichmann represented "the banality of evil." In a way, Grant represented the banality of a momentary greatness. Or perhaps the mysterious possibilities of the ordinary...