Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. A skillful biography of the fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along...
...death of her mother, for which Stalin in rage and grief punished everyone she knew. Yet Svetlana concedes that Nadya could not have lived with Stalin through the years of terror that followed 1932. Svetlana's other explanation is still more doubtful. She finds a devil. His name is Lavrenty Beria, Stalin's last and most infamous secret policeman. "A good deal that this monster did is now a blot on my father's name," she says. She admits that Stalin and Beria were often "guilty together," but calls Stalin's support of Beria "inexplicable...
...Devil Found. Svetlana's first child, Josef, was three before Stalin saw him. Five of his eight grandchildren he never met at all. Barely noting Svetlana's existence, he lived like an ascetic misanthrope in his dacha at Kuntsevo, the walls covered with blown-up magazine pictures of anonymous children. It was, she recalls, "A house of gloom, a somber monument. Not for anything in the world would I go there now!" And she adds, with a characteristic touch of superstition, that Stalin's soul, "so restless everywhere else," may still haunt that gloomy refuge. Svetlana last...
...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. The adventures of a fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along...
...DEVIL DRIVES: A LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON, by Fawn Brodie. A skillful biography of the fine old Victorian eccentric who roamed uncharted areas of North Africa and Asia and spent his spare time cataloguing the varieties of sexual activity he encountered along...