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Word: evils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rise of the New Age as a barometer of the disintegration of American culture. Dostoyevsky said anything is permissible if there is no God. But anything is also permissible if everything is God. There is no way of making any distinction between good and evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: New Age Harmonies | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

...brighter hues than in years past. Not because the harvest moon shone higher in the September night. Not because dear old Harvard won any more triumphantly on the football field--though of course it did. No, this autumn will be most pleasurable to me because this autumn two evil men have irretrievably consigned their immortal souls to the burning perdition of Hell...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Do the Hustler | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Flynt did not enlighten the court as to why he felt it important to exercise that right. One could suppose it might have something to do with the unholy evil of his black, black soul. But that's just a guess...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: Do the Hustler | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

House of Games proves that there's a lot less difference between the so-called normal people and criminals than we would like to think. Mamet's deadpan presentation of evil is bone-chilling. And as Mike tells Margaret, you may "learn some things about yourself you'd rather not know...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Fair Games | 12/4/1987 | See Source »

Despite the prospects of deep cuts in the superpowers' nuclear arsenals, Reagan said he still sees the Soviet Union as "an evil empire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Predicts Missile Cuts in '88 | 12/4/1987 | See Source »

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