Word: maligned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although McEwan has drawn on his peers for the structure of Black Dogs, he owes much to Conrad in tone. Black Dogs conjures forth the same malign essence as Heart of Darkness. The two novels generate the same suspense, as the readers churn through the pages to reveal the secret of the one incisive encounter. The black dogs of the title fulfill the function of Kurtz, revealing for an instant the black heart of mankind, the seed of savagery we all contain. Most of all, McEwan's work reflects the powerful, emotive, and yet strangely rambling, subdued prose of Heart...
...definition of student government is an often malign representative body which has to work extra hard to win the respect of the students," said David A. Aronberg '93, outgoing council chair...
Fatherland is being compared to Martin Cruz Smith's Gorky Park, set in the Soviet Union, another well-done, shadowed thriller about an honest cop operating within a malign bureaucracy. But Harris' narrative is more unsettling because it erodes our solid past and shows our present to be less than inevitable. His brooding, brown-and-black setting of a victorious Nazi regime is believable and troubling, the stuff of long nights of little sleep...
...Quayle has no malign racial-political intent, he might point out, when discussing the miseries of families, that, for example, Eastern prep schools are filled with children packed off to get them away from divorce, incest, alcoholism, child abuse, wife battering and other horrors at home. The willingness to let the racist implication stand unchallenged, unexamined, loitering on the threshold, is the ugliest aspect of all this...
...Another malign force in Canadian life is the national government. In recent decades it's been spending like a sailor. (Thirty cents out of every dollar Ottawa collects goes to service the debt, vs. 17 cents of every dollar in Washington.) The behavior of the central government especially angers the resource-rich provinces of the west. But neither big spending nor structural problems get a hearing in the din over the Quebec issue...