Word: devil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lobos' exultant Bertha, Lyle Lovett's Friend of the Devil, Costello's Ship of Fools...
Many writers have said that one of evil's higher accomplishments has been to convince people that it does not exist. Ivan Karamazov's bitter diabology was a bit different: "If the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness." In a nightmare, Ivan meets the devil, a character of oddly shabby gentility, who mentions how cold it was in space, from which he lately came, traveling in only an evening suit and open waistcoat. The devil speaks of the game of village girls who persuade someone to lick...
Evil is a word we use when we come to the limit of humane comprehension. But we sometimes suspect that it is the core of our true selves. In Young Goodman Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Everyman goes to a satanic meeting in a dark wood, and the devil declares, "Evil is the nature of mankind. Welcome again, my children, to the communion of your race...
...pursuing an endowed chair from a funding source of such dubious morals, Harvard demonstrated its willingness to sell its soul to the devil. Clearly, the University did not allow Prince Turki's record to stand in the way of a sizeable donation--something a committee overseeing the gifts process would have done if given a chance...
Harvard traditionally has held the view that "the arts were a sort of playground for the devil," according to Myra Mayman, director of the Office for the Arts. But with the coming of the American Repertory Theater (ART) in 1984, a debate ensued about whether to grant credit for performance. As a result, the "Bakanowsky Guidelines," named for Louis Bakanowsky, a professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, were established...