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...problem with this approach is that it totally ignores character. Witwoud (Davil Anderson) and Petulant (Armand Asselin), for example, are foolish fops, but they are charming in their absurdity...

Author: By Harrison Young, | Title: The Way of the World | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...prime. Above all, there is the unusual setting. Despite the fact that Novelist Dohrman, 29, has spent only one week in Haiti, he manages to convey that the jungle to him is partly D. H. Lawrence's "blood-consciousness" and partly O'Neill's "dat ole davil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dot Ole Davil Voodoo | 3/31/1958 | See Source »

Captain Charlie Ufford will play first man in singles against the Cadets. The fall Crimson senior needed only two sets in both singles and doubles to wipe his Davil-on College opponents off the courts in Monday's match, won 6 to 3 by Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity and Yard Tennis Teams Play Black Knights at West Point | 5/7/1952 | See Source »

...past and present move at conflicting levels. Hence, after windy, uninspired love passages, O'Neill keeps writing harsh scenes that the play itself does not seem ready for. Anna is as much betrayed by the story as by Life. Both her washed-up father, cursing dat ole davil sea as a way of exonerating himself, and her lover, who should either be less Irish or more poetic, are hollow men who precipitate farce and even bathos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 21, 1952 | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...Vagabond last night was roused form slumber by the fitful glare of flames reflected in the inverted muskmelon crowning the Dunster House Tower, whither he had retired in his eternal quest for "dat ole davil" indifference who is reputed to haunt the University. Instinctively he reached for the rope to sound the tocsin but bit his lip when he realized where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 3/21/1932 | See Source »

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