Word: devil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Calm and reasoned argument, replete with facts and figures, seasons the pages of opinions and accordingly the views expressed will obtain a much more favorable hearing than had they been clad in the devil-angel garb which not infrequently characterizes "magazines with a bias...
...John Bonner's "The Boy-Girl Relationship" attract because they have a charm and lack of pretension that is missing from some of the other stories. Most of Mother Advocate's sons know better, but some of them seem unable to resist looking back over their shoulder at the devil of pseudo-sophistication. Two of the other three short stories, by William Abrahams and Martin Collins Johnson, slip at different moments into this fault. The third, Edward Pols' "Porphyro and the Beadsman," is a tedious attempt at a difficult mental portrait which hardly deserves the lead spot in the magazine...
...state that the current undergraduate is skeptical of principles and moral issues and has no concept of the difference between right and wrong. The student of today has followed the broad path of science down into the smoking hell of positivism and empirical rationalism, a hell whose number one devil is John Dewey...
...haphazard noisemakers are Britain's wailing sirens. Sounded by air pressure operating on electric oscillators, they produce a discord which in the Middle Ages was regarded as the work of the devil. This discord is the augmented fourth (example: C and F sharp on the piano), was called the tritone because it spans three whole tones. The tritone was banned in sacred music, thus giving rise to a maxim: Mi contra fa est diabolus in musica (The tritone is the devil in music). When the sirens, beginning on a sweet major third or fifth, slip up and down into...
...more interested in the latest offerings of Messrs. Satherly and Kapp. Decca, which identifies such discs simply as "hillbilly" and "race" (Negro), had such items as Right Now and Essie Mae Blues by The Honey Dripper (Roosevelt Sykes); Pocket Knife Blues and Machine Gun Blues by Peetie Wheatstraw, "The Devil's Son-in-Law"; Cuckoo Cuckoo Chicken Rhythm and Birthday Party by Doctor Sausage and His Five Pork Chops. Okeh, which more elaborately describes this division as "Novelty Dance, Country Dance, Folk Songs and Race" offered I Don't Want No Skinny Woman and Thousand Woman Blues...