Word: demonicism
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Hoagland's footsteps are hardly the first to fall on East Africa from the outside world, any more than were those of Sir Richard Burton, the demonic Victorian explorer and scholar of the forbid den who infiltrated hostile cities dressed in native robes and speaking fluent Arabic. By contrast...
BUT JOHNNY ROTTEN brought a new faith along with his vaseline-and-tale pomaded hair, a faith in rock and roll and its ability to survive its own history, a cocksure answer to the "Now what?" he mutters once between tracks on this wonderful new album. The answer consisted of...
ALTHOUGH the set and staging focus on the sweeping, impersonal forces that deprive the characters of happiness, Sellars does not neglect the dense psychology of the play. In a flash of inspiration, Sellars enlisted Roy Kogan '80, to play Chopin preludes and nocturnes throughout Three Sisters. Kogan's forceful and...
Judges could stand some self-imposed deadlines; in the Revlon vs. U.S. case, the judge's decision was not handed down until 1975, nine years after trial. But even the most skillful and best-intentioned judges may be thwarted by the complexity and sheer size of some cases. "How...
Unfortunately, the paradisical setting of April Sound was marred by a demonic cold front sweeping the southwest. "On Friday during the sponsors' tournament the chill factor was seven degrees so we only played four holes," Ftizgibbons recounts in a taut voice. "We never got to practice."