Word: devil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. The author maps the life of the flamboyant Victorian explorer, linguist and erotologist and concludes that his real passion was not for geographical discovery "but for the hidden...
...Mary Poppins, Intrepid's tender, and at the dock, and revisited his sub ject and scene until he was sure he had exactly the right bearing. "I wanted this cover painting to be authentic," he said. "I have friends in the Yacht Club who would raise the devil if I made a mistake...
Senior Editor George Daniels (deep-sea fishing), Writer Charles Parmiter (hunting), Reporter Mark Goodman (football) and Researcher Geraldine Kirshenbaum (sky diving) make no claim to expertise in sailing-but they were just as concerned as Painter Lundgren, because they have readers who raise the devil when they make a mistake. To help bring the language through, they turned to the glossary and diagram that appear with the cover story, as well as to their skill at translating the expertise...
...devil a Governor can push through a billion-dollar tax increase and win popularity doing it is beyond me," grumbled a Democratic state assemblyman. Much to the bemusement of California's political pros, Freshman Republican Governor Ronald Reagan has done just that-and considerably more. He has also steered through a Democratic legislature major portions of his "fiscal conservative" program and at the same time managed to keep his name high on the list of the G.O.P.'s front runners in next year's presidential elections...
...After several novels, books of stories and essays, he is still the inscrutable artist. He fixes his characters in his own hopeless wastelands and in the reader's shocked consciousness. His warped people are beyond help because they will not help themselves. They have surrendered, and Bowles, the devil's advocate, grinds them further into defeat. He is American fiction's leading specialist in melancholy and insensate violence...