Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...find him baffling, enigmatic, and often infuriating. The 500,000 Greek Cypriots of his island home revere him as a guileless saint, a selfless patriot, and a tenderhearted humanitarian. The 100,000 Turkish Cypriots, a minority terrified of racial extinction, view him as a bloody-handed monster and "the devil of duplicity incarnate...
There came a time ten years ago when Mary Lou Williams decided that jazz was the devil's own music. She was among the best of the bebop pianists, but out on the scene she sensed evil all around her. She could even hear it echo in her playing. One blue night in Paris, "the badness" overwhelmed her; she got up from the piano and quit jazz cold. She drew up a list of names to pray for (urgent cases marked in red), and before long she had an endless coil of sadness, an encyclopedia of bad trouble...
Down & Out. Her discoveries of both God and the devil in jazz reflect perhaps the troubled state of her own spirit. But even so, she seems to have found her way. With the help of a priest, she has written a jazz hymn to St. Martin de Porres, a mulatto saint of the 17th century, and she is now working on a jazz Mass...
...James Stewart to brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve; she didn't think he warranted the rank. And when Maggie denounced the nuclear test ban treaty last year, Nikita Khrushchev was moved to observe: "It is hard to believe how a woman, if she is not the devil in disguise of a woman, can make such a malicious, man-hating call...
Throughout Devil's Disciple, satiric laughter undermines the pompous roar of hypocritical words and the beat of ceremonious drums. Dick Dudgeon, the devil's disciple, reveals the false sanctimony of his family, attracts the minister's holier-than-thou wife, and impulsively offers his life for the minister...