Word: devil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yellow Devil. In his official report on his trip, Khrushchev professed himself even more appalled at that "terrible city" of New York. "Gorky called it the City of the Yellow Devil [i.e., gold] when he visited there 50 years ago," said Khrushchev. "Since then, New York has become even more repulsive. It demonstrates the ugliness and degeneracy of capitalism." People live "as if sewing themselves into stone bags." Little children are "deprived of walking in the open fresh air. The streets are literally filled with automobiles, and the whole atmosphere is poisoned with gasoline." But like the good soldier...
...history, Durrell is quick to relish the durable, often superstitious, links with the pagan past. In Rhodes, the peasants believe that a child conceived on March 25 must be born on Christmas Eve and will inevitably turn out to be a Kaous. A Kaous is an impish little devil, complete with horns, hoofs and pointed ears, descended from Pan. He circulates after dark, croaking, "Feathers or lead?" Either answer may be wrong, after which the Kaous mounts his victim like a horse for a breakneck ride across country, lashing him all the while with a stick...
...said "his life-long obsession" with the writings of Poe influenced the "musical psychology" of his works, especially Peleas et Mellgande, La Cathedrale Engloutle and La. Mer. Poe's fascination with dreams and sexual symbolism cast a "subtle and profound influence over his works," and two of them, The Devil in the Belfry and The Fall of the House of Usher, so affected the composer that he used them as the basis of two never-completed operas...
Reporter: Mr. vice-President, one of your local campaign managers has stated that you can't lose because you have had a transaction in which you sold your soul to the Devil. Is this true...
Nixon: No. Let me emphasize that I never had one, do not now, and never will have one. And even if I did, I certainly wouldn't sell it to the Devil...