Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radcliffe girls were admitted to Harvard classes during the war because of teacher shortages. Announcing that the girls will stay on in peacetime, Harvard beat the coed devil around the bush by calling this "joint instruction...
...into the world he let the devil...
Professor Haushofer's Geopolitik-a strange conglomeration of objective fact, respectable theory, pseudo-scientific dialectic, scurrilous fanaticism-formed the chief intellectual disguise of Nazi aggression. The geopolitical devil did not die with the Haushofers...
Among the six stories in this book are a study of the dead hand of the past on a living person; a study of the Manichaean heresy (the notion that the Devil is as powerful as God and that they struggle for supremacy); the galloping putrefaction of American letters; the galloping putrefaction of moral and political values. Author Wilson has also chosen to write literally (and incidentally) about sexual intercourse. As a result, Memoirs of Hecate* County will probably be hailed as an event in gaminess...
...duck-killing turtles he abominates into a best-selling soup. "Turtle soup," chortles the adman, captioning a pallid portrait of a lady in crinolines, "saved the sweethearts and mothers of a proud and gallant race." Another neighbor, variously known as Blackburn, Malatesta and Swarzkopf, turns out to be the Devil, and delivers some of Author Wilson's most envenomed and heartfelt opinions (notably on Stalinism) in a monologue written entirely in French...