Word: devil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote tell a completely wacky shaggy-dog story; with Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones. Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre (TIME, March...
...demolished, done for! ... I have been fooled once, and I'll be damned if I'll be fooled again! . . . There is no more reason to suppose that Einstein's relativity is anything final than Newton's Principia. The danger is dogmatic thought; it plays the devil with it." religion, and science is not immune from "I Have Been Saying . . ." Whitehead avoided dogma better than most through out his teaching career at Cambridge, London and, finally, Harvard, where he began his spectacular rise as a creative philosopher at 63, when most academicians are thinking of retirement...
...their case books. Ten months ago, Professor William Davenport of the university's English department started to compile a bibliography, by now has found more than 200 works by or about lawyers. Among the first items studied by his students: Stephen Vincent Benét's The Devil and Daniel Webster, Willa Gather's Paul's Case. Davenport also gives students a taste of such lawyer-poets as Wallace Stevens and Edgar Lee Masters, exposes them to the theater with Galsworthy's Justice, Elmer Rice's Counsellor-at-Law, and even Gilbert and Sullivan...
...Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote tell a completely wacky shaggy-dog story; with Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones. Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre (TIME, March...
...heavy-handed writer whose researches almost always lead him to fascinating material. Previous books (on Jesse James, the Pinkerton detective agency) dealt with surefire subjects; but Tom Hines remains a shadowy figure right to the end of Confederate Agent. Nonetheless, it becomes apparent that he must have been a devil of a fellow, always hunted, sometimes caught, never held for keeps. He was only 23 when the Confederate government sent him to Canada with apparently unlimited funds. There he met with the top U.S. Copperheads, formed a "squadron" of Confederate saboteurs, and went to work. If he was really responsible...