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...defense, Kirk replied that Egypt has had its own Ministry of Education since 1923 and could have produced such an increase long ago. In a dictatorship, he added, "literacy" can mean the "ability to read that stuff that falls into the hands of the people. The Devil, as we know, can quote Scripture for his purpose...
...symbolism grew out of America's new awareness of sex. His audience ranked him with Poe, Whitman, and Twain. He was an institution, property of campus esoterics; and a legend--a mysterious collector of medieval lore, a scholar in "forbidden topics," a familiar in strange compacts with the devil--and, wrote Carl Van Doren, a rumored participator in "misdemeanors not so spiritual...
...Legion, once the best Arab fighting force in the Middle East. When it became apparent that there were no loyal forces left in Iraq, Hussein told his people in a broadcast, "The ambitions of international Communism have reached our country through certain Arab leaders who gave themselves to the devil...
Contrasts. Though both are sons of old racing drivers, there the similarity ends. Mike Hawthorn drives in devil-may-care style, his husky frame hunched over in the cramped cockpit, a grim scowl on his face. Moody Mike enjoys his cigarettes and whisky, cuts loose occasionally on the trumpet (which he plays with some skill), flies his own plane. He drives solely to win, cares little about how he accomplishes it ("I haven't bloody well got a driving style"). Hawthorn started racing motor bikes as a teen-ager in Farnham, Surrey, where his father ran a garage. Driving...
...With his hooked paw. the Devil drew me toward God," wrote a crazy mixed-up Frenchman named Joris-Karl Huysmans. He was never so crazy as when he earnestly took up diabolism. The record of his descent to the depths among the witches and warlocks of Paris was written in the first year of the '90s, and nothing more appalling appeared in the rest of that de cadent decade. Là-Bas, now republished in the U.S., might well call to the mind of old-fashioned readers Browning...