Word: demonism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PETTY DEMON (355 pp.)-Fyodor Sologub-Random House...
...glutton and compulsive sucker on caramels, Peredonov is the anti-hero of Fyodor Sologub's classic. The Petty Demon, a glittering fantasy that had enormous success in Russia when it came out in 1907 but has not been widely read elsewhere. (This deft translation is the first time it has been reissued in the U.S. since 1916.) A poor schoolteacher in an ugly 19th century provincial town, Peredonov hopes to be appointed inspector of schools through the intercession of his vulgar mistress Varvara with a powerful princess...
...Demon in Disguise. Wehner was prominent in the "ohne mich" (without me) campaign of the early 19505 against a West German army, urged concessions to Moscow as a price for German reunification. His support for the SPD's ill-fated "Deutschland Plan," which looked toward removal of Eastern and Western troops from Germany and Bonn's withdrawal from NATO, only bolstered Konrad Adenauer's suspicions that a Communist was trying to take over the Socialist movement. "A demon," growled Adenauer...
Joan of the Angels? (Film Polski; Telepix) is a beautiful, full-bodied young woman possessed by eight demons. Almost proudly, she rattles off their names-Balaam, Isacaaron, Behemoth, Gressil, Dog's Tail, Amon, Leviathan, and Asmodeus, demon of lust. Asmodeus, of course, possesses many women. But Joan (Lucyna Winnicka) is no common wench: she is the mother superior in a Roman Catholic convent of Ursuline nuns...
...warns against the Terrible of petty tasks and , ogre of wasted effort and of habit, the demon of , the Senses Taker ("I help find what they're not looking what they're not listening for, what they're not chasing.... your sense of purpose, take of duty, destroy your sense ...."), the Triple Demons promise (easy to escape because get anywhere at all), the Know-it-all and the Gross...