Word: devil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Alfred Neumann, 56, German poet (Songs of Laughter and Despair), historical romancer (The Devil, The Patriot, The Gaudy Empire), whose contempt for tyrants and dictators (Louis XI, Paul I, Napoleon III) caused Hitler to banish both him and his works from Germany; of a heart ailment; in Lugano, Switzerland. The Devil, an extraordinary reworking of Quentin Durward into a psychological flesh-creeper, was a bestseller of the late '20s; The Patriot, also a bestseller, was made twice into a movie (first with Emil Jannings, later with Harry Baur...
Some of the most striking French fiction comes from precocious teenagers writing about teenagers. In Devil in the Flesh, 17-year-old Raymond Radiguet showed a boy drawn into a love affair with an older married woman and swamped by the first rush of passion. In Awakening, Jean-Baptiste Rossi, 16, told a startling but sensitive story of a love affair between a youngster and a Roman Catholic nun. In The Illusionist (written three years ago) 22-year-old Françoise Mallet, a Parisian housewife and mother, tells perhaps the strangest tale of all, that of a 15-year...
...Aftermath. Grandier was seized, probed to the bone with a long needle for "devil's pain-free spots," put to the "question extraordinary" (a procedure in which the victim's legs were systematically splintered), adjudged guilty and burned at the stake...
Actually, the idea of a new party had been vegetating since early July. Many Republicans had worked themselves into such a frenzy against Eisenhower that to vote for him seemed like embracing the devil. For days the "I Won't Vote" letters were stacked row on row in the letters to the editor column of the Tribune--as many as forty each issue. Others, who would not neglect their franchise, agreed with the lady who wrote the Tribune...
...Roaring Mountain by Lemonade Lake is about an adulteress who is shot dead by her husband and goes to Hell. The Devil is there to meet her-"a naked gigantic man" with "flat muscled belly and symmetrical widespread legs." He is "reckless," "virile," "resistless," "incontestable," "beautiful," "sinister," "primordial and unrestrained, fierce, overmastering, intemperate," "an essence ... of masculinity" fraught with "potent magnetism"-in brief, "the man every woman hopes she'll be raped by." Whenever the Devil fulfills these hopes, it causes a thunderstorm to break over Hell; much of Roaring Mountain is devoted to this special type of weather...