Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amateur theologian put many professionals to shame: The Problem of Pain (1940), an explanation of how a benevolent God can permit evil to exist; and Miracles (1947), a case for the plausibility of the supernatural. In The Screwtape Letters (1942), his witty little classic, Lewis has a veteran devil advise on how to ensnare souls for "Our Father below." Small sins were often best. Quoth Screwtape: "Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual...
...McIntyre, who was Carter's state budget director in Georgia, was at first retiring in his new post, but he has gained confidence and clout and improved his chances of staying on past the presentation of the 1979 budget, due in January. In policy debates, he plays the devil's advocate, continually arguing against new spending or new programs...
Ellis Rabb can tango with words and he is a sly devil at milking an audience dry of laughter. Peter Evans' John rolls his lines like dice in a crap game he dare not lose. For Mamet, this play is a five-finger exercise, but so nimble that he often seems to be using ten. - T.E.K...
...Clarke novel superior aliens arriving in the form of a black monolith, the Devil, or a spaceship as big as a planet, would resolve the stalemate, usually by initiating man into a higher consciousness. Overmind--mind without matter--is the highest product of evolution in Clarke's scheme. Such a mind can flit from star to star, experience eternity as a single instant, and generally paint the universe red. (so if you were wondering what that baby floating across the stars at the end of 2001 was all about, now you know...
...scene of the musical film Goodbye, Mr. Chips, David conformed to the image of all-round student for a couple of years, then refused to return. "I went to my housemaster," says Cornwell, "and he said, 'Well, this is the moment of choice; you choose between God and the Devil...