Word: demoniacal
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...like to think of Paul Tillich as the theologian who has rediscovered the intellectual respectability of Christianity. This was certainly no easy job. After reading hundreds of philosophers and writers, Tillich still had to wrestle with a number of metaphysical titans--among them, Being, Non-Being, Being-Itself, The Demoniac, and the Eternal Kaires. In the end, these cosmic structures, along with his analysis of what man and history really are, come together "within a system that comprise the whole of man's interpretation of himself and the meaning of his life, which I undertook to develop in my Systematic...
...Song III is from Franz Kafka's Diaries: This last week was like a total breakdown. . . . The clocks do not synchronize; the inner one chases in a devilish, or demoniac, or at any rate inhuman manner; the outer one goes haltingly at its usual pace...
...gives the part to a girl of 14 who looks a round 17. Making her movie debut, Teen-Ager Lyon is simply overmatched by the demands of her part. She acts knowing rather than sexy, and she lacks what Nabokov himself has defined as the "demoniac" essence of the near adolescent nymphet, an "elusive, shifty, soul-shattering, insidious charm...
...crypt to terrorize the countryside. Director Mario Bava makes subtle use of a Gothic setting-much of the film was shot in a medieval Italian castle-to enhance the Gothic mood. One shot is pure black magic. The vampire's coach, black as a hearse and carved with demoniac exuberance, careens through the night like a colossal bat out of hell-but soundlessly, and in slow motion, so that it seems to be floating tunelessly through an interminable nightmare...
...myself in the hands of God." With demoniac energy Dr. Guida began organizing, soon got the Italian government to agree to handle radio messages between CIRM and Italian ships at sea and tiny island outposts in the Mediterranean. The service, provided then as now by volunteer doctors, expanded from there. Today 60% of CIRM's "patients" are aboard non-Italian ships and 80% are outside the Mediterranean. Despite a wartime shutdown CIRM has handled 52,500 messages, treated more than 7,500 cases aboard hundreds of ships of 22 nationalities.* "It would cost a small fortune to be treated...