Word: evils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest in the adventures of Tarzan, Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Imitating and burlesquing such heroes, he began concocting science-fiction tales that he mimeographed and sold to other students. One of Siegel's lesser creations was a story called The Reign of the Superman, which featured an evil scientist with a bald head. Superman as villain? The thought is enough to make posterity shudder. But this was not the stuff of greatness. It was only during a sleepless summer night in 1934, after Siegel had graduated, that the grand inspiration came: Superman as hero...
...Africa. Apartheid must fall when Black children achieve a dignity and pride in their heritage and grow up to rightfully demand the privdleges of South African whites. The government's measures against children show a systematic campaign to prevent Black South Africans from ever challenging its rule. Only an evil, cowardly regime preys on children. Soweto proved this. But the U.S. administration still feels no obligation to intervene...
Dole's main challenge now, as it has been for years, is to keep his dark side under control. Aides joke about his demeanor. Playing off Doonesbury's conceit that George Bush has an invisible "evil twin" Skippy, Dole staffers joke that their candidate has an invisible "happy" twin. Even after Dole knew he had won Iowa, he was slow to celebrate. When he finally accepted his victory, breaking into a genuine smile, Iowa voters must have got a special lift, having made this sad man happy for a moment. Before the week was out, the happy twin had again...
Gingerich says that he obeys all of the biking laws. "After seeing CAT-scans of brain-damaged people, I always wear a helmet," he says. "I never ride in the Yard. I would never pull anyone off their bike. I think evil thoughts about them, though...
...plowing into buildings while carrying tons of explosives--look like little old ladies from Kansas. Professional bus drivers have threatened to quit if sent to drive in Boston. Unfortunately, this frightening phenomenon affects Cambridge as well. When I applied to school here, I had no understanding of the "evil driver syndrome," or the black magic it would soon use to suck me into its vortex of fear and hatred...