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This life-blighting system has anguished parents, embarrassed teachers and worried doctors, who find the young exam takers suffering from all sorts of mental and physical tensions. Eleven-plus is "the invention of the devil," says the Rev. Arthur Morton, director of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson argues that "a child's future should not be decided by how many butterflies are in the tummy one cold Saturday morning in February...
...find him baffling, enigmatic, and often infuriating. The 500,000 Greek Cypriots of his island home revere him as a guileless saint, a selfless patriot, and a tenderhearted humanitarian. The 100,000 Turkish Cypriots, a minority terrified of racial extinction, view him as a bloody-handed monster and "the devil of duplicity incarnate...
There came a time ten years ago when Mary Lou Williams decided that jazz was the devil's own music. She was among the best of the bebop pianists, but out on the scene she sensed evil all around her. She could even hear it echo in her playing. One blue night in Paris, "the badness" overwhelmed her; she got up from the piano and quit jazz cold. She drew up a list of names to pray for (urgent cases marked in red), and before long she had an endless coil of sadness, an encyclopedia of bad trouble...
Down & Out. Her discoveries of both God and the devil in jazz reflect perhaps the troubled state of her own spirit. But even so, she seems to have found her way. With the help of a priest, she has written a jazz hymn to St. Martin de Porres, a mulatto saint of the 17th century, and she is now working on a jazz Mass...
Throughout Devil's Disciple, satiric laughter undermines the pompous roar of hypocritical words and the beat of ceremonious drums. Dick Dudgeon, the devil's disciple, reveals the false sanctimony of his family, attracts the minister's holier-than-thou wife, and impulsively offers his life for the minister...