Word: demonicism
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With ruthless force the new life forces out the old. After 36 hours of it, the young man suddenly feels empty, light, free: free of the past, free of his own galling limitations, free of his existence even, free as a bird and like a bird he longs to spread...
EDVARD MUNCH-Granville, 929 Madison Ave. at 74th. Nothing is innocent in these demonic graphics from the private hell of Norway's greatest artist. Simian males are seduced by redheaded vampires in an orgy of richly colored woodcuts and aquarelle lithographs, betraying Munch's mixture of lust and...
Parliament removed witchcraft from the list of criminal offenses in 1736. Since then, the black arts have been the property of tiny demonic cults. But 1963, for no clear reason, has been a banner year for sorcerers. In March the pro-Labor New Statesman concluded that "black magic seems to...
The professor's feelings on freedom of conscience also leave the reader concerned. "The judgment that one can not be a heretic with good conscience has been accepted by the church...Heresy is not an error in judgment or a difference in expression, but a demonic possession, splitting the moral...
He taught an unforgettable course on the American Romantics. To some students he himself looked like one of the grand Romantic figures he spoke of in the lectures, an Ahab at times, and even an Ishmael. Those brawling sentences, the brooding manner, the great, obscene chuckles whose delight it was...