Word: deviled
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...imposing figure, a supremely learned scholar whose pride leads him to seek knowledge and power normally denied to mortals. Both wise man and fool, he scoffs at the moral givens of his age and experiences the inevitability of divine punishment as a result. Having bartered his soul to the devil, Faustus undergoes a gradual spiritual degradation--a degradation whose dramatic impact depends on the demonstrable grandeur of his initial aspirations. When that grandeur is lacking--as it is in this production--the proud doctor is debased to the level of a foppish magician whose downfall is pitiable but hardly tragic...
...decades the Rev. Billy James Hargis [Feb. 16] begged for millions of dollars to fight the Communists and the Devil. TIME now exposes Hargis as a bisexual and says that he blames his "chromosomes and genes" for his behavior. It is refreshing to learn that Marx and Satan aren't responsible for everything that goes wrong...
...other hand, some might say Carter, whose relentless gopher's grin and Joe Hardy-like rise from obscurity have earned him the recent sobriquet "The Devil's Candidate," was only going to touch base with the dark spirits who have granted him his mortal popularity...
Kruzel remarked that the atmosphere "was very respectful," and that no one asked "the hard questions, the 'devil's advocate' questions." He said Kissinger made no mention of returning to Harvard on a permanent basis...
...could not help comparing the [Jan. 19] approach to life of the "Power Boys" with that of Mother Teresa and the other "Living Saints" you presented a few weeks ago. If our best response to the problems of the world is "Devil take the hindmost," then the species does not deserve to survive...