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Surely, Mr. Sorel intended Woody Alen to represent a creature known in Greek mythology as a satyr. Or maybe Pan, the great god of nature. Either would have been more applicable than comparing him to the devil. Come on now -Woody Allen the incarnation of evil...
...devil is usually depicted standing, long tail in evidence (spear on end) and pitchfork in hand. His horns are curved, and while he has hoofs, he does not have hairy legs. When a horned god sits on a rock, reed pipe in hand, and displays hirsute lower extremities and straight horns...
Solzhenitsyn speaks in the tradition of Dostoyevsky, who taught that if man did not worship God, he would worship the devil or himself in the form of Caesar. This is a dubious ground for the pluralistic beliefs essential to a democracy. Organized religions in the past have supported despotism, and some churchmen in our own time still...
...town of Loudun. She tells her confessor that in tormented night hours, she is forced to utter obscene words and participate in obscene acts. The nuns in her charge are similarly afflicted. In a fit of possession, with her strangulated sepulchral voice suggesting The Exorcist, Sister Jeanne reveals the devil inside -Grandier-a neighboring vicar whom she has never actually seen...
...departure approaches, 33 crew members on deck and below are beginning their duties. The surprisingly clean engine room, below and aft, is bigger than the devil's furnace in a fevered imagination. Ship's engineers are checking giant boilers and huge cooling systems that support the 23,500-h.p. turning of a 64-ton propeller. In the galley, blonde, green-eyed Karen Honold, 20, an assistant cook who looks like a movie starlet and makes $906 a month (not counting overtime), is baking a chocolate cake. On the bridge, Captain DeTemple is stalking about in conventional irritation...