Word: demonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Laotians rarely worry, but they are always concerned with the state of Vientiane's Thai Dam pagoda. They believe that the black Buddhist shrine is in reality a cork that holds back an evil demon. Last week, when flares arched over the Thai Dam and the rattle of rifle fire broke Vientiane's predawn quiet, many Laotians feared that the cork had come unstuck...
Morris speaks feelingly of brotherhood, but what he practices is more like Big Brotherhood, the slightly proprietary snobbism of a global planner confined to one squalid room and one underdeveloped mentality. He is a demon of uplift ("talking helps") and tries to tempt Zach's palate with a wedge of pie in the sky-a farm the two brothers will buy and work. But Zach, a man of profound instinctual sanity, is slow to sublimate. "I'm sick of talking, man, I want a woman," he says. Morris fobs him off with a pen pal ("18 years...
...Sweeney is strapped into his own chair for its final run. Since no one who rode the contraption in the course of the evening ended up in a pie crust (not even the one Sweeney shot in the head, for good measure), it is fair to conjecture that the demon barber is yet at liberty. Veal pie, anyone...
...faith was a public one, and he asserted it in BBC broadcasts and in most of his more than 30 books. None earned him greater fame than a series of letters he wrote for the Manchester Guardian in 1941, cast in the form of instructions from a bureaucratic demon in hell's "Lowerarchy" to a junior devil engaged in corrupting a human soul. A witty Baedeker of modern sin, The Screwtape Letters became an immediate bestseller-and a minor masterpiece of modern religious prose...
Record of Defeats. "Poor Scott," as all his friends woundingly referred to him at one time or another, did not have mere bad luck. He drank, as he lived, generously, and this fact alone put him at a disadvantage with people. His early letters record his triumphs over the demon gin; his defeats were recorded by others. Because he was a famous young man, he could never anonymously fall down a flight of stairs or insult his hostess or make a howling clown of himself, because someone was always there industriously to record a momentary superiority...