Word: devil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Given a final chance to speak, Jiang Qing sarcastically noted, "You are pushing the blame on me as though I were some kind of devil with three heads and six arms who can do anything she wants." Then, just before the courtroom drama concluded with her forcible eviction, she once again declared her willingness to die for her cause. "I only wish," she said, "that I had several heads for you to chop...
Such is Orville Schell's rediscovery of Peking man, a post-Cultural Revolution pastiche of shifting policies and that old foreign devil, instant gratification. The author has been observing China ever since he was graduated from the Harvard-Yenching Institute in the late '50s. He made his first trip to the mainland in 1975 and knew pretty much what to expect. The rift in Sino-Soviet relations and memories of America's recent war in Southeast Asia had deepened China's traditional sense of isolation and natural mistrust of outsiders. Although he gorged on statistics...
Rudofsky, in fact, builds a whole disquisition on forks into his exhibition. Condemned as "devil's paws" by 15th century European clergymen, forks are such a fixture in 1980 America that there is even a stop-go one on the market, with flashing red and green lights to indicate when it is time to take another bite. Some Fiji Islanders, according to Rudofsky, eat everyday fare with their fingers and reserve forks for formal dishes roast of human flesh...
...modern culture have frequently boiled over into newspapers and magazines. But Burgess, 63, is no club Tory grumbling behind his Times and Spectator. He is a rugged, independent Christian humanist who confronts an age that has depersonalized and secularized his values. Such novels as The Doctor Is Sick, Devil of a State and A Clockwork Orange are not only cautionary satires but examples of Burgess's flair for Joycean wordplay and knack for turning out novels that entertain as well as instruct...
...gluttonous, shrewd and tough, Believing that evil is an outside job, not part of mankind's nature, he has no compunctions about literally beating the Devil out of people. He bashes a madman with a crucifix, throws "holy" ammonia water in the eyes of an attacker, and makes Hitler abhorrent to a Nazi official through a crude but effective method of behavior modification known as the third degree...