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Word: demonism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...horror, Crow brings a note of jaunty irony, even whimsy, as the titles of his adventures show: Crow Tyrannosaurus, Crow Improvises, Crow's Last Stand. Crow is a sort of cosmic Kilroy. Alternately a witness, a demon and a victim, he is in on everything from the creation to the ultimate nuclear holocaust. At various times he is minced, dismembered, rendered cataleptic, but always he bobs back. In his graceless, ignoble way, he is the lowest common denominator of the universal forces that obsess Hughes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Demons and Victims | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...Pusey era frequently contain pictures of the new president, his hair not yet grey, and often wearing a casual looking sweater under his tweed jacket, sipping sherry with undergraduates. In those days, he was still the hero of American academics, the man who had fought the right wing demon and defeated him. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences commended him in an unusual resolution, and he was featured on an Omnibus program. His door was still open to the press, which heaped him with praise...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: The Pusey Years: Through Change and Storm | 1/12/1971 | See Source »

...tender dreamy childishness and a kind of eerie vulgarity." And, as Humbert said, "you have to be an artist and a madman with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in order to discern by certain ineffable signs the little deadly demon among the wholesome children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Profit Without Honor | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...Yaksa [demon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sudden Enlightenment | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

When such phrases creep in, perhaps Lukas is exorcising the demon Times from his soul. Written in the first person, Lukas makes clear the fact that the trial has forced him to reconsider personal prejudices acquired over 15 years as a journalist. Bewildered as I was during those five months, and even now when the protest marches through the streets have subsided and friends who called this the last indignity they would tolerate in America are making plans for Law School, I can't fault the book's failure to choose sides. The circles of his light narrative explain that...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Chicago The Barnyard Epithet and Other Obscenities | 11/17/1970 | See Source »

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