Word: devil
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any-More, by Tennessee Williams, raises the specter of death before a horrible and gallant old woman, magnificently played by Hermione Baddeley, and conjures up the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil before a Christ figure whom Paul Roebling makes as real as this strange religious allegory will permit...
...such incidents. Arosemena's Conservative Party opposition in Congress twice tried to vote him out of office. In his New Year's message. Arosemena himself referred to his personal problems: "Those who pretend to ignore that the human being is complex-shadow and light, angel and devil-are, in Biblical terms, money changers in the temple." And lately he seems to have, curbed his penchant for Scotch...
...high-school education, an annual income of less than $8,000, and accounts for more than three-quarters of all television homes. His opinion of TV ranges from "extreme, unqualified" positive ("I love it-it moves me just like a woman") to "extreme, unqualified" negative ("It comes from the devil"). On the whole, though, he thinks it's just fine, at least as Psychologist Steiner interprets...
Though The Crucible is a foul deed, the New England Conservatory Opera Department and the Conservatory Symphony Orchestra gave life to parts of this performance, its New England premier. In Act I, Tituba (Sandra Provost) made the most of describing her encounter with the devil. In Act III, Abigail Williams (Linda Phillips) made the court room scene, in which demons appeared to her, fun; a dull, dull text quashed her immediately. Given fatuous parts, many of the other singers (Mary Liverman, Ivan Oak, John Ring, Mary Lou Sullivan, and Robert Donaldson) strove mightily to overcome them. The set was imaginative...
Burgess, a member of an old English Catholic family, was a composer and teacher before he became a fulltime writer four years ago. His earlier book, Devil of a State, is a Waugh-like account of a fictional state remarkably like Brunei, where he had served as educational adviser to the Sultan. It won praise for what seemed like the high spirits of a young talent (Burgess was then 42). It gave little hint of the moral seriousness of Orange, where the brassily orchestrated jive of nadsat is used to point up a grave philosophic theme. It is a gruesomely...