Word: evils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leningrad library fire was a natural disaster. Deliberate book burning seems not only criminal but evil. Why? Is it worse to destroy a book by burning it than to throw it into the trash compactor? Or to shred it? Not in effect. But somehow the irrevocable reduction of words to smoke and, poof!, into nonentity haunts the imagination. In Hitler's bonfires in 1933, the works of Kafka, Freud, Einstein, Zola and Proust were incinerated -- their smoke a prefigurement of the terrible clouds that came from the Nazi chimneys later...
...criminal, how much more a sin against consciousness, to burn a book. A question then: What if one were to gather from the corners of the earth all the existing copies of Mein Kampf and make a bonfire of them? Would that be an act of virtue? Or of evil...
...houses, look at the shacks," he says. "Most likely she'd grow up, get disgusted, leave and never come back." Last week Allyssa awaited her fate wearing a layer of sweet powder. A Navajo medicine man had covered her with it during a ceremony performed to expel evil spirits. Perhaps it will protect her from the injuries of a bitter custody fight...
Upon the teacher's effort hinges the fate of the whole town. For in the distant past, an evil aristocrat put the town under a spell that, ever since, has rendered everyone in the town both mindless and unable to love. The only way the spell can be broken is if either a member of the Zubrisky family marries someone of the aristocrat's line, or if someone can educate Sophia. If the teacher fails to do so within 24 hours, the age-old curse will strike the promising intellectual as dumb and loveless as his pupil...
Will success spoil Disney? "I sense a little bit of arrogance because they are doing so well," says a Wall Street analyst who follows the company. But Disney's executives deny smugness as if they were warding off an evil spell. "You always have to believe you're in last place," said Eisner recently as he flew across the country in Disney's leased Gulfstream III jet, looking a bit sheepish about the luxury. "Flying on this kind of plane is exactly what leads to your financial demise," he observed...