Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goethe, lies in man's capacity to reconcile these opposites in creative activity. For creation, for a true birth, the feminine vessel is necessary as well as the masculine spark; but the problem of woman involves the problem of evil; and so Faust sells his soul to the Devil in return for the love of the loveliest woman alive. Seduced by the Devil, he seduces Gretchen, gets her with child, abandons her to a disgraceful death. At the end of Part One, Faust is doomed...
THOMAS, by Shelley Mydans. A full-dress novel about Thomas Becket emphasizes pomp and pageantry, but also characterizes Becket as serving God as much as King Henry II serves the Devil...
THOMAS, by Shelley Mydans. A full-dress novel about Thomas Becket emphasizes pomp and pageantry, but also characterizes Becket as serving God as much as King Henry II serves the devil...
...their foreign beat, he wrote, the crusaders seemed "more eager to put on an act than to right wrongs. Or perhaps they had fallen into mere hostility for its own sake. It seemed to me that some reporters out from the States were happiest when they had a devil to chase−when they could see a story in terms of someone's malfeasance...
...Margaret Murray's books on medieval witchcraft, she throws a shadowy net of the supernatural around her story, suggesting that Henry II's great-uncle, King William Rufus, died in a ritual cabalistic murder in a sacred wood, and strongly hinting that Henry himself was doing the Devil's work as much as Becket was doing God's. Since Thomas is fiction, not history, Author Mydans need not apologize for her liberties. Nor for her writing, which is smooth when Becket walks in piety and muscular when he is routing the chivalry of France...