Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republican congressional leaders who had come to the White House for their weekly conference. "I can't understand the House adding a couple of hundred millions I didn't want for defense spending, appropriating millions of lard for rivers and harbors-and then cutting the devil out of foreign...
Died. Alfred Noyes, 77, right-bank English poet (The Highwayman), critic (Voltaire), philosopher ("God help us if we reach a stage in which our plumbing is perfect but in which the human soul atrophies"), novelist (The Devil Takes a Holiday), onetime (1914-23) professor of English literature at Princeton; on the Isle of Wight. The early commercial success of his verse was a sensitive point with Noyes, who abhorred the hack reputation, denied that he "had made poetry pay." Born a generation after his time, Traditionalist Noyes was sharply articulate about "that curious modern tolerance for things which ought...
...home of such artists as Cellist Casals and the late Nobel Prizewinning Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. But Serenity has not eased the pull on Bootstrap. Muñoz finally came around to the belief that "we must live like angels and produce like the devil...
...mystic search for God. To be beat, argues Holmes in a recent Esquire, is to be "at the bottom of your personality looking up." Says Kerouac: "I want God to show me His face." This might be more convincing if Kerouac's novels did not play devil's advocate by preaching, in effect, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of kicks," e.g., drink, drugs, jazz and chicks...
Viruses & Reflexes. Before the reign of Peter the Great, who founded the Imperial Academy in 1724, Russia's cultural life lay smothering under a blanket of religious orthodoxy that considered everything non-Russian as heresy and the work of such men as Copernicus as "the craft of the Devil.'' The first academicians were mostly from the West, but whether Russian or not, they soon acquired the special place in society that they hold today. Though a practical man, Czar Peter fully realized the value of research that might not bring immediate benefits. As a result, from...