Word: deviled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group can look on the light side too. Get a Good Thing turns out to be a ringing endorsement for living for the moment, guilt free. Currently, The Devil You Know, a danceable slammer about the conflict between living for the moment and living pragmatically, is being played in heavy rotation on college radio stations. Though the lyrics are cryptic, one could interpret Edwards' words as a message about the danger of promiscuity in the age of AIDS. But other songs, like the politically charged The Right Decision, are far more alluring. Here Edwards makes a commentary on hypocrisy, with...
...think the great percentage numbers or the great dollar numbers by themselves can tell you anything," he said. "Now obviously if one were nine times the other, then you would have a good prima facie case for wondering what the devil is going on. But if you're anywhere in the same range, then you've got to go sport by sport and level of participation by level of participation...
There are coaches who would sell their soul to the devil for the kind of situation rookie Harvard squash Coach Bill Doyle stepped into this year. Sell their soul, and not even mention Daniel Webster when the ol' Evil One comes to collect...
...listen to something behind the clamor of the world. "A man who loves God, necessarily loves silence," wrote Thomas Merton, who was, as a Trappist, a connoisseur, a caretaker of silences. It is no coincidence that places of worship are places of silence: if idleness is the devil's playground, silence may be the angels'. It is no surprise that silence is an anagram of license. And it is only right that Quakers all but worship silence, for it is the place where everyone finds his God, however he may express it. Silence is an ecumenical state, beyond the doctrines...
Assistant city manager Palmer has not budgeted for evil, but neither has he made a classic Faustian bargain. How could he? In a universe where God is only curious, the devil is certainly bored, at least with Five Oaks. To convey this sense of abandonment and emptiness without losing the reader is not easy. Shadow Play could have turned into another clever existential dead end. But Baxter fills the void with a hundred human touches, a style as intimate as chamber music, and a hero who rouses himself to reject the banality that hoohah happens...