Word: devil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...listened to the litany of Franklin Roosevelt's greatness. One theme in the lesson was FD.R.'s desire for results even at the expense of philosophical purity. He quoted an old Bulgarian proverb that says, "You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge...
...sounds like one of those Brechtian place names out of Mahaggony, where mysterious and sinful things occur. And its equatorial locale is primitive and threatening. Jungle encroaches almost to the doorsteps of Kourou (pop. 7,000), in French Guiana. Only a few miles offshore lies Devil's Island, once the world's most infamous penal colony, and local waters teem with piranha and alligators...
...prim persona. In her first novel, Lolly Willowes (1926), she wrote with quiet fierceness of a "genteel spinster" who chooses "to have a life of one's own, not an existence doled out to you by others," even if the price be a compact with the devil...
...grave." The brief period he spent as editorial assistant on the satirical magazine Simplicissimus only seemed to increase his specific gravity. The summers he spent in Italy seemed to make him even more German. To go south in a Mann story became a symbol for going to the devil...
...SPANISH: Possibly because they spent so much time on the right under Francisco Franco, Spaniards now position themselves on the political left. More than other Europeans, they consider wages the most important aspect of working. And more than the others, too, they believe in God, hell and the devil...