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Word: devilled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scampering rustics. An off-in-the-distance village, Greenwillow is also an out-of-the-past one and might conceivably be Rip Van Winkle country; its doings, at least, could put people to sleep for 20 years. It offers a woodsy, folksy, pixie world where people hear a devil's call to wander, where a stern ramrod reverend and a kindly rolypoly one share the same pulpit, where Anthony Perkins, as a bedeviled wanderer's son, is afeared to marry his sweetheart, where people dart out of portable outhouses, or go in for bucolic frisks and nocturnal rituals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical on Broadway, Mar. 21, 1960 | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...humor betrays him; it is sane and healthy. The grin may be twisted, but the mind is not, and it is hard to believe that once the fellow gets his divorce and has a few drinks to steady himself, he will still be able to see the Devil's jigging hoofs instead of the barmaid's dimpled knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is Sex Necessary? | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...last. One of them skeptically recalls a line from a Bergman script: "Happiness is a thick, paralyzing pastry settling down on one's everyday life." But so far happiness has not stifled Bergman's creative inspiration. Last week most of his next film, a comedy called The Devil's Eye, was in the can, and he was hard at work on the script of another picture. And it will take him a dozen years, he expects, to make all the other movies he has in mind. He will probably make most of them in Sweden. "I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SCREEN: I Am A Conjurer | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

...Devil's Advocate, West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Mar. 7, 1960 | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

...Devil's Advocate, West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Feb. 29, 1960 | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

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