Word: demonism
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...paradoxical figure, leary of publicity even as he competes for profits. Half introvert and half visionary, McDonnell sometimes seems a crusty, single-minded engineer who exists only for his work. But he is also a mystic missionary bringing word from another world, and all his fighter planes?Phantom, Demon, Banshee, Voodoo?bear names that testify to his long fascination with the abode of spirits...
...five countries, including the U.S., and had escaped from at least two institutions. Settling down in South Africa, Tsafendas somehow landed his messenger's job last August (a secret government inquiry is exploring the lapse in screening); then, acting on the impulse that he blamed on the demon inside him, Tsafendas attacked Verwoerd as he was about to make his first major policy speech of the Assembly session. "I can expect a certain amount of shock and dissatisfaction among certain people," Justice Beyers noted after his decision, "but I am sure they will realize it could not be otherwise...
...menace of the psychotic killer is the more frightening because he may seem a model citizen until he goes berserk. Many of them "have a feeling that there is a demon within themselves," says Los Angeles Clinical Psychiatrist Martin Grotjahn, "and they try to kill the demon by model behavior." Sensing aggressive impulses that frighten them, adds a Manhattan analyst, "they live the opposite of what they feel. They become gentle, very mild, extremely nice people, and often show a compulsive need to be perfectionistic," which is one reason why people can always be found to describe a murderer...
...Earthly Delights, which hangs in his office. The first panel is an idyllic study of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The centerpiece shows an orgiastic wrangle of naked men and women. The third panel is a wildly surrealistic version of Hell in which a lizardlike demon sits in judgment, defecating doomed sinners into a hole in the ground...
...hand who holds an Ox ford University doctorate in Chinese military history and translated Mao Tse-tung's key treatise On Guerrilla Warfare, bluntly told the committee: "I don't think the Chinese would place any credibility whatever in any treaty we might sign. We are the demon in Chinese eyes as much as they are the demon in our own eyes...