Word: demonicism
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Graves, by choice, is out of the main poetic current of his age. He has none of Yeats's wild, keening lyricism or his mystical obscurity, nor can he approach Eliot's dry resignation, his religious vision or his private yet colloquial idiom that is a true echo...
THE RISE AND FALL OF ADOLF HITLER (by William L. Shirer; Random House; $1.95) is not, as might be supposed, merely an instant, small-package version of Shirer's massive bestseller, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. This book is more sharply and dramatically focused on the...
In the Dutch town of Joure last week, 16 young Germans-eleven boys and five girls from 16 to 24-were hard at work building a youth center and studying Hebrew in preparation for work in Israel. In the French village of Taizé, 30 young Germans were working on...
But the pictures pass too quickly. All the many sides of Martin Luther are more or less touched upon-the brilliant scholar, the skillful dialectician, the linguist whose translation of the Bible molded the German language, the man whose interior life shifted from sharp reason to demonic visions to irrational...
Franco, on the other hand, as the apparent international winner, gained only limited victory. During the war, the slogans of his lunatic fringe-"Long Live Death!" and "Down with Intelligence!" -made him sound as crazy as the anarchists. But he eventually made himself the master of his own extremists. His...