Word: devil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cells for the incos (incor-rigibles)-concrete tombs with openings at the top for the guards to spy through. On Royale stood the notorious Crimson Barracks, so named because of the killings that took place after the guards bolted the great iron door at 6 each evening. And on Devil's Island were the lonely huts of the political prisoners, in one of which Captain Alfred Dreyfus spent four years...
...Dreyfus Case spread the infamous name of Devil's Island all over the world, but the prisoners, often shrunken to 70 or 80 lbs., worked and died as before. At night, a "bar of justice" would hold the incos manacled to plank beds, and on execution days the prisoners would be forced to kneel around the guillotine to watch...
...famed Twittering Machine, which looks something like an inverted mobile from which fishing lures have been suspended, inspired Schuller to a snatch of serial music in which the orchestra beeped, squeaked and rasped like a rusty hinge while the muted brasses burped out shreds of sound. Little Blue Devil, a complex of overlapping triangles, rectangles and pentagons, suggested a perky blues mood. Arab Village, an aerial view in yellows and browns, inspired Schuller to write a theme resembling nothing so much as the casbah scene in an early Ronald Colman movie...
...Devil and Tom Walker,* by John Quidor, shows the same ambivalence, perhaps drawn from the well-pruned splendor of English romantic poetry on the one hand and the wild reality of the American wilderness on the other. An illustrator of genius, Quidor was a friend and admirer of Washington Irving, and his best paintings are based on incidents from Irving's tales. But he found few customers, painted decorative designs on fire engines for a living...
...Washington Irving's tale, Tom Walker, Yankee miser, accidentally kicks up a skull in the woods and is admonished by a guardian devil named Old Scratch. His wife loses body and soul to Old Scratch, but wily Tom sells his soul only, and for hard cash. "Lend the money," the devil suggests, "at 2% a month." "Egad," replies Tom, "I'll charge...