Word: evils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are other complications about bloodlines, old-boy and old-girl networks, the FBI and a touring orchestra backed by the CIA. All end in moral muddles that dramatically underscore the dilemma of ends and means. Higgins is no prude; he understands that evil can be a matter of degree, and he can live with the camel's nose in the tent. But in Outlaws he worries about the beast that decides to enter broadside...
...Minister Keerthisiri Abeywickrama dead and ten people injured, including Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa, who was sitting next to Jayewardene. Miraculously, the President escaped unharmed. Still wearing his bloodstained clothes, Jayewardene within hours delivered a nationwide radio address. "We intend to carry on our work," he said, "irrespective of the evil forces ganging up against...
There's nothing inherently evil about federalism; yet Barron writes that the "incantation of the federalism theme" is always "distasteful." Apparently because of its historical association with racism, Barron somehow concludes that states' rights arguments are always used to defend small-minded prejudice against the progressive drive of the federal government...
Diehard lapta fans deeply resented President Reagan's recent remark about lapta's "evil umpires." In truth, umpires are so revered in the Soviet Union that players often call out, "Honor to the umpires!" and managers run out of the dugout to congratulate the men in black on successfully making difficult calls. This is because the umpires are scrupulously fair and usually have close relatives on the party's Central Committee...
...ballets, the socialist-realist works like Spartacus and The Golden Age that dramatize episodes in class warfare. The dancers command extraordinary energy and seem in total, avid sympathy with the choreographer. Unfortunately, American audiences may find these mighty pageants simplistic. The silent-film grimaces, the cartoons of good and evil, + the battle cries hurled soundlessly into the air can all be a bit quaint, unless one is willing to forget everything that Balanchine and Tudor accomplished and enter this brave old world wholeheartedly...