Word: demonizations
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...youngest child of English immigrants, Republican Welch worked his way through Iowa's Grinnell College and the Harvard Law School (No. 2 in the class of '17). Joining a venerable Boston law firm, he soon began making a reputation as a lawyer's lawyer, a demon at crossexamination, a suave, subtly histrionic persuader of judges and juries. Little known nationally until the Army-McCarthy hearings, in which he acted without fee as the Army's special counsel, courtly Joe Welch soon became a public figure, was showered with fan letters. He continued his active practice after...
...three-act excursion into cabalistic legend. Long intriguing to dramatists,* the Dybbuk legend in the Ross ballet version was set to a sparkling score by Vienna-born Composer Robert Starer. Ballerina Kaye was cast in the role of the heroine, Leah, whose body is possessed by a dybbuk, or demon...
...head of a team financed by the Ford Foundation. The future high school, said the Trump report, will dispense with standard classes of 30 students meeting five days a week on inflexible schedules. For 40% of the time, large groups of 100 students or more will attend lectures and demon strations. Another 20% will be spent in small seminars of about a dozen students...
...pretty as a picture, and she poses an interesting proposition. "Evildoing when done adroitly is very exciting." she purrs. What follows should be naughty and very funny. It is nightmarish instead-like too much Liederkranz. In one of his rare excursions outside the Hotel Splendide, Funnyman Bemelmans draws a demon-driven adolescent who swears like a legionnaire, squeezes the head of an infant like a tennis ball, flips hatchets instead of hips at suitors, does her best to entice a priest, and sets fire to a convent...
...superior, an aged and very human monsignor, who takes charge. He also carries the author's message -in purple language and in terms so unorthodox that many a Catholic will find it hard to accept. Long before he saw the lipstick, the monsignor knew that "the demon of concupiscence has been nibbling at the poor boy's glands. How do I know this? Have I not myself been chased through life by the hound of copulation?" Now he advises Bowles: "Go to her, if you must. You are a good man. There is nothing worse than self-deception...