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GENERAL Alexander M. Haig Jr., President Nixon's chief of staff, testified last Thursday that White House aides have considered a "Devil Theory"--an explanation for the 18-minute gap, now known as Rose Mary's boo-boo--that did not rely on poor secretarial footwork, the hum of electric appliances...
...Study Fear, ignorance is bliss if it enables the hero to overcome terrors from which wiser men would flee. In Hans My Hedgehog, ugliness is a curse to be broken by magic. In Pitcher's Feathered Bird and Brother Gaily, cleverness and sharp practice can outwit the Devil, even the keeper of heaven's gate. Above all, the tales are sweaty with human nature. Time and again, the message seems to be: "Don't tinker with the order of things." Yet this message is repeatedly mocked by the irrepressible truth that man is an incurable tinkerer...
...Devil by the Tail, 8:15, weekend...
...Devil By The Tail 8:15; weekend...
Eugene O'Neill seemed to write as if God (or the Devil) had given him life for just one reason: to shout with every breath that all was a ghastly mistake. "Froth! Rotten!" were his actor father's dying lines, and the playwright son with the eyes of a fallen angel carried on the refrain. "The Great Sickness" was among O'Neill's milder epithets for human existence...