Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed to be nothing more than a symbolic victim. Many analysts noted that Khomeini thrives on crisis, habitually seeking to dramatize his strength and distract his restive populace by pummeling some scapegoat. Past offenders have included the U.S., which Khomeimi frequently calls the great Satan," the Mujahedin-e Khalq guerrillas, who oppose the regime, and the army of neighboring Iraq. Late last year, Khomeini added the Soviet Union to his list. It was a startling switch, especially for U.S. policymakers, who have been anxious about the possibility that the Soviets would make mischief in Iran ever since the fall...
...elder Kahl, who had contended that the U.S. Government is "the American synagogue of Satan," jumped into an unmarked Medina police car at the shooting site and fled. Much of the government he hated was soon hunting him, employing some 100 lawmen, dozens of cars, police dogs, even an incongruously formidable armored personnel carrier. By week's end five suspects, including Kahl's wounded son, were under arrest. But Kahl was still eluding the massive man hunt...
...interview with the Harvey (N. Dak.) Herald, Kahl claimed that "the income tax is one of the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto, call it the ten commandments of Satan." He added: "I'm going to try to live by God's law. When it isn't possible anymore, we'll have to die trying...
...Promised Land, the place of safety and redemption. Rick Blaine has been cast out of America, for some original sin that is as obscure as the one that cost Adam and Eve their Eden. Rick flees to Europe, which is the fallen world where Evil (the Nazis, Satan) is loose. He meets and beds the widow of Idealism. Idealism (meaning Victor) is dead, or thought dead, but it rises from the grave. Rick, losing Ilsa, falls obliviously into despair and selfishness: "I stick my neck out for nobody." He becomes an idiot in the original Greek sense of the word...
Enemies like Satan are the top of the line, of course, which is why one discovers them only in fiction. Real-life enemies are rarely protean; usually they assume a single form with which they are comfortable, and stick with it. There is the help-seeking enemy, for example, who plays upon the odd fact of human behavior that by requesting your aid or advice he lowers himself before you and thus disables your wrath by your own sense of shame. Then too there is the help-giving enemy, who attempts to pile so much generosity about your head that...