Word: satanizing
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...Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) may see that she is beautiful, but how can black be beautiful if the standard of beauty is to be white, blond, fair? How can black be good if cleanliness (whiteness) is next to godliness, if Satan is the Prince of Darkness, if there are blackguards and blackmail, black thoughts and black deeds? To be in the dark is one thing, but to see the light is quite another. Images of whiteness can be terrible too, of course (the white whale, whited sepulchers, death on a pale horse...
...beard, became a familiar figure in Cairo. Gratified by the change, he observes: "An Israeli in Egypt is not considered today with the same curiosity I sensed a year ago, when people looked at you and seemed to ask, 'Are you on the side of the angels or Satan...
...Kung should not be condemned for the sin of inarticulateness. He disposes of Descartes, Hegel, Marx and others with remarkable self-assurance. Finally he comes face to face with his arch-villain, the Great Satan of Kung's world, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, the apostle of nihilism, stands for everything Kung fears: God is dead, there is no reality, everything is meaningless. Far from believing Kung's favorite quote of Einstein's, "God does not play dice," Nietzsche says, there is no God, there are no dice, there isn't even a game...
...frustration and impotence. American diplomatic support and military backing could not prevent the fall of the Shah, who for decades seemed the paragon of a U.S. friend overseas. Then came the humiliation of the embassy seizure, the burning of American flags, the ritual chanting of "Death to the great satan!" by mullah-led mobs. Recent years have spawned an array offerees seemingly inimical to American interests, ranging from the extortionist pricing policies of OPEC to xenophobic Islamic fundamentalism. Iran, in a peculiarly ugly way, has managed to represent both...
...side stood the clergy-dominated Islamic Republican Party (I.R.P.), which had rabidly supported the taking of the hostages yet ultimately negotiated their release with the nation they called "the Great Satan." On the other side were the moderate supporters of President Abolhassan Banisadr, who had long called for an end to the crisis but now denounced the deal with Washington as a humiliating national sellout. In the wings lingered Iran's pro-Moscow Communists, temporarily in league with the right-wing mullahs but waiting for economic and political chaos to make the country ripe for a Soviet-sponsored takeover...