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After years of regarding it as a favorite flavoring, preferred preservative and nutrient, Americans are suddenly saying no to salt. According to a national survey, 40% of the population is trying to cut back. The diamond crystal has become the demon crystal and "the No. 1 food fear," according to California Nutritionist Ronald Deutsch. Says Deutsch, an irreverent observer of food fads: "This society is pervaded by a 'What's the latest hysteria?' attitude when it comes to nutrition, and salt is the latest...
...dangers that may lurk in their food. Saccharin, nitrates, sugar, cyclamates have all come under suspicion. Few are as committed on the salt issue as Food Columnist Craig Claiborne, who turned from salt addict to antisalt agitator after his own hypertension was detected. When it comes to the demon crystal, Claiborne goes straight to the point. Says he: "They should label salt just as they do cigarettes, saying that it is injurious to your health...
...cats: a seasoned mouser, astonishingly enough, brought four pennies, about the worth of a lamb. By the 17th century, however, the devil, unwelcome and omnipresent, had been doing his worst through the feline. In 1699, for instance, at the Swedish town of Mora, 300 children were accused of employing demon cats to steal butter, cheese and bacon. Fifteen of the children were killed, and every Sunday for a year, 36 were whipped before the church doors. By the mid-18th century, the cat was back in favor. Frederick the Great thought so highly of cats he made them official guards...
...moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all," wrote the demon scribe in expounding the fine points of satanic strategy in C.S. Lewis' Screwtape Letters. Screwtape would have enjoyed comparing notes with officials from the Soviet Union's State Council on Religious Affairs. At least so it would seem from an extraordinary Soviet study now circulating in the West. The secret report, reputedly written in 1975 by Council Deputy Chairman Vasili Furov, assessed the condition of the still enormous Russian Orthodox Church for the Communist Party Central Committee. In striking contrast to provisions...
...Brimstone and Treacle" is unlike most plays produced at Harvard. Demetrios said. "Briefly, it's about a man who believes himself to be a demon. He visits a middle-aged English couple and rapes their daughter, who is in a coma...