Word: demonicism
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LADY WU, by Lin Yutang. From the remote era of 7th century Imperial China, Author Yutang has recalled an empress who was Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and Lucrezia Borgia rolled into one fiery, demonic woman. Clawing her way from obscurity to power, she killed wantonly and hideously; finally on the...
God on His Back. A lifelong Catholic, Author O'Connor wrote exclusively of ultimate things: sin and salvation, death and rebirth, the old Adam and the new life. But she was a poet of region as well as religion, and in this new collection of nine stories, which belong...
Only O'Neill's family is sufficiently doomed to be called tragic. Miller's people are defeated; Williams' clan is haunted, principally by "the long delayed but always-expected something that we live for." The Glass Menagerie is thus the most Chekhovian play of the U.S...
In speech-making attire, a three-piece serge suit with wide stripes and wider lapels, I.F. Stone looks rather like an old Jewish tailer from the Bronx, uncomfortably slicked up for his grandson's Bar Mitzvah. But when he begins to talk, eyes twinkling with more than a little demonic...
The publishers advise us that Mailer has dramatized the unthinkable. Rather, he has dramatized the supremely thinkable, demonic fantasies of fear and courage, of ambition, of aggression and virility that serve as fodder for the dreams of futile men. He tells of suppressed obsessions, impulses not acted out quite, but...