Word: devil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devil is not as wicked as people believe, and neither is an Albanian. -Albanian aphorism...
...first time, Nikita publicly named Old Bolshevik Kliment Voroshilov, former President of the Soviet Union, as an anti-party man who "had joined the Devil, but then apologized." The delegates applauded, and aging 80-year-old Voroshilov, sitting as an obscure member of the 41-man Congress Presidium, dutifully joined in by clapping his hands at his own condemnation. Nikita then went on to denounce Nikolai Bulganin, who was straightman in the touring company of Khrushchev and Bulganin until his 1958 demotion. Bulganin, in the audience as a delegate, seemed to wake from a slight doze at the mention...
...Devil's Eye. Sweden's Director Ingmar Bergman brings Don Juan up from Hell on a mission of seduction, and an average 20th century girl sends him back more melancholy than ever for having learned what love...
...novel gets much of its quality from the convoluted Jamesian style, which is hardly suited to song. Still, Composer Moore ( The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Ballad of Baby Doe) was fascinated by the story of a young Englishwoman who urges her penniless lover to start a flirtation with an ailing American heiress, hoping that the heiress, who is compared in the story to a dove, will soon die and leave him rich and free. In stripping the story to the operatic bone, Moore and Librettist Ethan Aver changed the name of the scheming suitor from Merton Densher to Miles...
...Devil's Eye. Sweden's Director Ingmar Bergman brings Don Juan up from Hell on a mission of seduction, and an average 20th century girl sends him back more melancholy than ever for having learned what love...