Word: abell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precedent laid down by the Bible and Paradise Lost. Introducing Freudian psychology, he suggests that God's subconscious created the Tree of Knowledge and that Eve fell into temptation out of penis envy. He also implies that Cain was actually sired by Lucifer, and he ends the Cain-and-Abel offering scene with a chaotic and completely inexplicable orgy in which Cain starts fucking his mother" (as the Devil so delicately puts it). On the other hand. Miller remains remarkably true to Milton in his portrayal of Lucifer's character. Extremely clever, fiendishly ambitious, capable of persuasively logical argument...
...early arguments with which Lucifer tries to wheedle power from God seem facile and merely clever, but toward the end he makes us question the justice of a God who, with full foreknowledge, tempts Cain to kill Abel. Played as a pretty-boy smart-ass by the top-billed Hal Holbrook, the Devil resembles a cross between a quick-talking, shifty-eyed lawyer and a slightly hip John Wayne. Holbrook appears appropriately serpentine even as he swaggers with self-esteem, but perhaps he could temper his over-confidence a little, considering he flubbed his lines at least three times...
...Ogre himself, a huge, nearsighted man, is named Abel Tiffauges. He is one of those tiresome people who see mysterious significance in every little occurrence. He is variously a Parisian auto mechanic, a keeper of military carrier pigeons, a P.O.W. assistant to the chief forester at Hermann Goring's hunting preserve, and a youth scout for a Nazi eugenics program. Each of these jobs gives Tiffauges a chance to spread his mythic wings. As Abel, he recalls...
...black majority was greatly pleased by the commission's findings. Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, leader of the newly formed African National Council, called the report a "God-given chance" for Rhodesia's blacks and whites "to reason together and try to solve their problems." Smith was not having any of that kind of reasoning. "They are a bunch of unscrupulous politicians," he said of the council leaders, "who have hoodwinked the poor African." In the absence of a settlement, the British government will maintain its diplomatic and economic boycott of Rhodesia. "The status quo," said Foreign Secretary...
...halt crime, we have to stop blurring the distinction between Cain and Abel. It was Cain who killed his brother...