Word: demonism
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...scientifically studied and eventually banished from the human psyche. So confident is Jekyll in the iron strength of his own virtue that he sincerely believes he can give birth to evil without being corrupted by it. Alas, the virtuous Jekyll is no match for the satanic Hyde: once the demon has been released, the angel seeks every excuse to descend himself into the depths of depravity...
...NEILL: SON AND PLAYWRIGHT, by Louis Sheaffer. O'Neill did what only a major artist can do: he made his public share his private demon. In this painstaking biography, the first of two volumes, Author Sheaffer traces the tensions that defined the playwright's life...
Preventive Measures. Others continued to replay the events of Nov. 22, 1963, and June 5, 1968, as if to exorcise a demon from the national spirit. No fewer than nine new books were on the market in the U.S. eulogizing John or Robert Kennedy, or probing their assassinations. In Russia, Anatoly Gromyko, son of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, published a mildly sympathetic study on J.F.K.-the first book-length examination of any kind to be printed in the Soviet Union-entitled The 1036 Days of President Kennedy, borrowing heavily from Arthur Schlesinger and Theodore Sorensen, but mostly picturing...
...NEILL: SON AND PLAYWRIGHT, by Louis Sheaffer. O'Neill did what only a major artist can do: make his public share his private demon. In this painstaking biography, the first of two volumes, Author Sheaffer traces the tensions that defined the playwright's life...
...invariably of humble birth. He may be called the Demon Lover. In Ten-Thirty on a Summer Night, he is a Spanish workman on the run for killing his wife and her lover; he is rescued by the heroine in dramatic circumstances and fondly described as "her miracle, the storm murderer." In Moderate Cantabile, he is a French workman, again mysteriously connected with a recent murder, again with a sinister power over the heroine, who is frequently disturbed by "the silent agony of her loins." In L'Amante Anglaise, he turns up as the woodcutter Alfonso-an Italian this...