Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRIALS OF BROTHER JERO and THE STRONG BREED, by African Playwright Wole Soyinka, introduce two aspects of Nigerian life to Manhattan audiences. In the first play, Harold Scott is a devil of a "prophet" as he gathers his "flock" on the beaches. In the second, Scott gives a taut interpretation of a voluntary victim of tribal sacrifices...
...cause of our failure. We should have looked after our people instead of getting involved in others' revolutions and wars and squandering thousands of millions of pounds. We destroyed our economy by our own hands and put our destiny and history in the hands of the devil. We made many mistakes, but the biggest mistake we made was that we did not admit those mistakes...
...Firing Line, a "how-to" series on such subjects as skin diving and sewing, live chamber concerts, and an engrossing experimental show that examines far-out topics-for example, the people who advertise for sex partners in the underground weeklies. That program is called Nothing Goes Over the Devil's Back That Don't Buckle Under His Belly...
...expression picked up from a Negro farm worker. KQED'S producers claim to give the title no special meaning, although it stems from Rabelais ("What is got over the Devil's back is spent under the belly") and suggests that ill-gotten riches are always squandered...
...devil is loose," mourned one young hippie, "and as long as he is loose, there will always be wrong things." Then a score of hippies in Denver murmured prayers for a "beautiful person" named Carol and a requiem for Carol's little Billy...