Word: demonism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, the department drew an unprecedented45 concentrators, a number Gates expects to risesteadily. Ad although the year was hardly freefrom student protests and demon-strations, foronce none of them focused of Afro...
...this realm of Shaggy and Scooby's melodramatic mystery marathon, I first learned about hypnotism. In a twisted Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde sequence, for instance, Scooby would be entranced, and would alternate between babbling, snack-seeking "man's best friend" and blood-hungry canine demon. All with the swing of an heirloom pocketwatch...
Bright orange tongues of flame roared on the TV screens placed about the stage during "Bullet the Blue Sky," serving as a forceful visual representation of the lyrics: "Plant a demon seed/ You raise a flower of fire/ See them burning crosses/ See the flames higher and higher...
...novel centers on a legendary event: The birth of a child, who is born half-human, half-frog. The child is alternately cast as a demon, a victim of a diagnosable medical disease and a Christ-child; his mother, Magdalena, is similarly a divided character, a whore/saint...
...reaction to it, comes the manufacture of its opposite myth. European man, once the hero of the conquest of the Americas, now becomes its demon; and the victims, who cannot be brought back to life, are sanctified. On either side of the divide between Euro and native, historians stand ready with tarbrush and gold leaf, and instead of the wicked old stereotypes, we have a whole outfit of equally misleading new ones. Our predecessors made a hero of Christopher Columbus. To Europeans and white Americans in 1892, he was Manifest Destiny in tights, whereas a current PC book like Kirkpatrick...