Word: devil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fraimbault last month, a woman drowned herself because she believed she was a victim of the evil eye, and a young farmer reportedly hanged himself for a similar reason. Driven to holy anger, the local priest cried from the pulpit to his tiny congregation: "You believe more in the devil's power than in God's. Sorcery reigns here as master...
Jonathan Swift is the Lucifer of British letters. Unfortunately, posterity has precautiously trimmed the old devil's toenails. As traditionally abridged, Gulliver's Travels is a charming classic for children. Yet Gulliver unexpurgated is no tale for tender ears; it is a ferocious assault on the human species. And Swift unsweetened is no nursery rhymester; he is the most powerful ironist since Aristophanes, the blackest of all the great blackguards who have lacerated the conscience of mankind...
Good and evil, God and Devil battled in Swift's life as they did in his work. He was a madman as well as a genius, and his existence was a contest of fear ful contradictions. He was a compulsive sadist with a tender heart, a lifelong impotent passionately involved with women, an earnest clergyman obsessed with excrement, a magnificent intellectual addicted to childish puns, a great master of letters who considered his life a failure because he failed in politics, an Irish national hero who loathed the land of his birth...
...metropolitan France (see map), the colony is so stagnant that its population has increased by only 10,000 in 350 years, to its present total of 31,000 inhabitants. French Guiana's chief contributions to mankind so far have been one of history's most infamous prisons, Devil's Island, and the loan of the name of its sleepy capital, Cayenne, to a famous variety of pepper. But now at last the lethargic land is due for its share of grandeur: France is planning to turn it into a platform for Charles de Gaulle's vaunted...
Speak of the Devil and he appears. First night in Crete, the old man turns into an old goat and goes snorting after a dilapidated soubrette of 60 (Lila Kedrova), who followed the British fleet to Crete in her flaming youth and made enough money to retire by entertaining admirals on the bridge. Next day the old man urges his young friend to hold similar converse with the village widow (Irene Papas). The young man is afraid to try. "It would only make trouble," he murmurs. "Trouble!" the old man hoots at him. "Life is trouble. Only dead...