Word: demonism
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...wondered what would have happened historically had Plymouth Rock landed on the Pilgrims. For Mr. Wonderful much less suggests Nightclub Artist Sammy Davis Jr. finally landing on Broadway than Broadway landing on him. It has bedded down this master of loud sounds in pointless noise; it has surrounded this demon of driving energy with feckless hullabaloo. The effect is of a nightclub talent not so much fighting his way out of a musicom-edy frame as out of a cage-and of having to elude a posse until it is so winded it lets him be the whole show...
NAVY'S DEMON JET FIGHTER, which was a $200 million flop with underpowered Westinghouse engines, is finally getting airborne. Six planes with Allison engines have passed flight tests and joined the fleet. The Navy, which was sharply criticized by a House subcommittee for its part in the fiasco, along with Planemaker McDonnell, now thinks all the bugs are licked, will spend another $55 million for more Demons...
...Demolay agrees with him. He complains of the difficulty of scheduling social events during the week. "People always have quizzes coming up," he says, "and they just won't come on a weekday night." Especially significant is the case of one student who considered himself an extra-curricular demon and took pride in the fact that he could "always arrange to have two free nights a week...
...illness in an adult. An emotionally disturbed child is far more likely than an adult to act out his hostile and aggressive impulses, instead of merely talking them out, because deeds are more natural to him than words. In a mental hospital this sometimes makes the child patient* a demon of destructiveness, and many institutions refuse to accept...
...picture is a screen adaptation of Koyo Ozaki's Konjiki Yasha (Golden Demon); written at century's turn, it was one of the first Japanese novels ever set in the troubled here and unmitigated now, and it spurred the rising revolution in Japanese letters. As the picture tells it, the story is well calculated to soak as many crying towels as any other late Victorian romance. Miya (Fujiko Yamamoto) and Kan-ichi (Jun Negami), an orphan, grow up together in her father's house, fall in love, and are properly betrothed. A rich young man appears...