Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Stephen Vincent Benet, 44, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (John Brown's Body) ; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A more popular poet than either his brother William Rose or his sister Laura, he was also a deft fiction writer (The Devil and Daniel Webster), nearly always wrote of the American scene. He was a tall, loose-limbed, shyly humorous, friendly man with a boyish look despite his mustache and thick-lensed glasses. He published his first volumes of verse when he was 17, wrote John Brown's Body as a Guggenheim Fellow in 1926-27. This...
Trade with the Devil. There were explanations. Many of them made immediate sense in much the same way that the military deal in North Africa made sense...
...transfigure any sympathetic reader. Saroyan is one of the few contemporary writers who can articulate, in terms of common life, the indispensable text, Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God. The pity of it is that they are seldom able to see, very clearly, the devil and the man caught in the middle...
...twenty-one months he returned to civilian life as a member of the Officers' Reserve Corps, in which he was promoted to his present grade in 1930. His home is in Stroudsburg, Pa.; his specialy is neuropsychiatry; and his hobby is authoring books (among them his autobiographical "The Devil and the Doctor") and pulp-paper thrillers with scientific plots. He came on duty in the present emergency in June, 1941, and had tours of duty at Carlisle Barracks, Pa.; and Camp Lee, Va., before joining the Chaplain School staff on March...
...Britain and the U.S. the problem was plainer every day: Russia holds too many trumps to be finessed in the game of politics. Equally plain: if the partners in war do not lay their cards on the table soon, there will be the devil...