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Princeton has some outstanding talent besides its "devil-may-care" attitude, Senior Steve Davidson has scored 17 goals already this season. Assisting him is forward Boneventure Mbida, an extremely exciting foreign exchange student...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Adopts Role of Spoilers Against Unbeaten Crimson Booters | 11/8/1969 | See Source »

...from the room the moment you hear us." To many people, Zappa, in fact, has often seemed to be a force of cultural darkness, a Mephistophelian figure serving as a lone, brutal reminder of music's potential for invoking chaos and destruction. Zappa sees himself merely as a devil's advocate who started out by disguising his own serious music as rock ("There's nothing reprehensible in atonal music played over a boogaloo rhythm"), hoping to find a permanent place for it. At 29, Zappa has now disbanded the leading underground rock group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: Mephisto in Hollywood | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

...largely by a desire for profits and, related to this, by a desire for domination and control over the destinies of others. These desires are rationalized by equating the interests of the World with American national interest and perhaps, at a deep level, by the anti-communist religion, the "devil theory" of communism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PATRONIZING BLUSTER | 10/30/1969 | See Source »

...FIRST impression about The Living Room War is that Arlen writes around his subject with stunning circumlocutory adeptness. But the persevering reader discovers that the essence of the matter is precisely this elusiveness. We sense the devil, all right, and know he is traducing our life, but how he pursues his subterranean mischief is maddeningly invisible...

Author: By Chris Rochester, | Title: The Living Room War | 10/9/1969 | See Source »

Gabardine Swine. Fortunately Muggeridge, however weak on God and grace, is brilliantly funny on their adversaries the world, the flesh and the devil-as befits a former editor of Punch. Fiat Nox (let there be night) he sees as the first commandment of the modern world. The result of seeking heaven on earth is hell. "Four freedoms lead to forty times more servitudes," cries Muggeridee, and Savonarola in top form and full throat from the pulpit of the Duomo cried no louder. We are gabardine swine losing life and liberty in the pursuit of happiness. The real modern religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man Bites God | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

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