Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clearly illustrating the angel-devil attitude of "The New Student" is a short, hard-hitting, and forced broadside by Reuben Hersh called "The Liberal's Dilemma." It states the thesis that both major political parties, whatever they profess, are working hand-in-hand to further the interests of militarists and monopolists at home and abroad. This position is dwelt on at greater length by the editors in an article "What Now, What Next." Their discussion, however, adds little to Mr. Hersh's story, except for the dogma that the Wallace Third Party is the only "genuine alternative to war, depression...
...Devil Anse Hatfield was a tall bearded man with round shoulders and a slight stoop, grey eyes, bushy eyebrows, a hooked nose. He was the father of 12 children. Randolph McCoy was 20 years older, tall, kindly, broad-shouldered, with sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles...
...after. Consulting his expectations, he believes that he is likely to be better off five years from now, in the spring of '53, rather than worse off. Most optimistic are Britons (3 to 1) and Italians (5 to 1). Meanwhile, despite economic and political issues that devil him whenever he stops to think about them, the Western European has work...
Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat; Octet for Wind Instruments (Members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Stravinsky's seldom-heard 1918 setting of the old Russian tale of a soldier, his violin and the devil ranks among his masterpieces. L'Histoire sounds almost like a full orchestra; actually only seven instruments are used, but used for all they're worth. Recording: excellent...
...Timothy throws his Bible in the fireplace and burns the house down while two of its occupants are asleep, it looks like an accident, but Sinkanda knows better. She and Tim have an affair that is both earthy and unearthly. Together they fly to Hell for a visit to.the Devil, a scene which, as handled by Miss...