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I blurbed The Kiss . The book scared me, not because it concerns incest or happens to be true but because of the malign figure of the father, who reminded me of the character played by Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter . I also appreciated the drugged cadence of the prose, with a chasm between every two sentences, and the frozen stare of the insistent present tense.
You chose great examples of the benign and malign forms of this phenomenon, in citing FDR and ER's tag-team response to the Bonus Marchers and ER's later cover for FDR's neglect of the refugees.
Veeps should never malign or crudely distance themselves from their presidents.
In the absence of malign government intervention, there will emerge what he calls "spontaneous order."
It depends on the civilization you'd care to malign."