Word: devil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAY THE DEVIL: A HISTORY OF GAMBLING IN THE U.S. (475 pp.)-Henry Chafetz-Clarkson N. Potter...
...completed casting for the various sketches: John Nathan, looking like the Wild Bull of the Pampas, in an old vaudeville bit set along the river bank; Dan Seltzer, a chalk-faced Death directly out of Bergman; Madeline Rosten, as a frowsy, hip-scratching housewife; Steve Aaron, who bests the Devil (Seltzer) in a game of Monopoly; and Jack Daniels, who doubled as technical director. There is also an unidentified couple making love near the John Weeks bridge...
...Devil's Advocate. High-purposed and high-pitched, but at the same time ill-harmonized, this play asks the largest questions raised on Broadway this season...
...wrong with him? He only knows that he has sold his creative talent for commercial success. On and on and on he goes, looking but not really looking for Anna, avoiding the truth about himself, escaping into sex with Claudia as once he had escaped with Anna and the devil knows how many others; a man turning eternally in the limbo of a living death-and apparently enjoying it. Suddenly it occurs to the spectator that Anna will never be found, that Claudia's love affair will never work out. that Sandro will never amount to anything, that...
...with talented people whose only god is their narrow talent. And he even makes the devil seem a doubtful presence. But only once does he manage to sound like Remain Gary: "An idealist is a son-of-a-bitch who thinks that the earth is not a good enough place for him." THE MAN-EATER OF MALGUDI...