Word: eviler
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...climax another critic quipped, “I didn’t see that coming,” eliciting laughter and applause from the audience; everyone saw every surprise far in advance. As the boy grows into a cartoonish overdramatization of “pure evil,” it is no surprise: all-too-obvious foul play has already obviously corrupted the cloning procedure...
...Partial Birth Abortion Ban is another Orwellian innovation. Don’t waste your time leafing through medical textbooks for a description of partial birth abortion. The term is a political fabrication used to conjure a false image of crying babies being killed by evil doctors. The bill’s title loosely refers to an extremely rare medical procedure that is used as a last resort in the second or third trimester of a pregnancy, mostly when the fetus is already dead or when the mother’s life is in danger. Women’s rights advocates...
Perceptions that conservatives are wrong or evil serve to justify their exclusion and marginalization at Harvard. Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ‘53 recently described fellow professors for The Boston Globe: “Everybody is a liberal and shows it. They conduct classes in such a way as to make conservatives feel excluded. The atmosphere is very politicized...
...repentant for championing a policy of vigilant anti–Communism. Yet here was Solzhenitsyn defending not only the essential justness of U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, but also rebuking the West for not doing more to meet the Communist challenge and stop “the forces of Evil.” As Harvard Law School professor Harold J. Berman later wrote, “Solzhenitsyn seemed like a man from Mars...
...same tribute as those who call her a savior. Both attest to her power over readers and the lessons she teaches through the stories she tells. There are tales of conversion when some critics actually get around to reading the books and find a message about good and evil, courage and kindness, that speaks to universal values. There are testimonials from parents and teachers about kids tackling fat books for the first time, skipping whole grade levels in their reading, lured away from the screen to sink into the page. But mainly her influence is quiet, because it is private...