Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mumford finds his devil and feels his great passion as he confronts the "mega-machine"-political, economic, bureaucratic, royal powers organized into vast enterprises. He is slightly hysterical in denouncing the U.S. military establishment as a megamachine and "the minds now in charge of [it] have already proved as open to ... corrupt fantasies and psychotic breakdowns as those of the Bronze Age kings." The myth of the machine is based on a belief that the megamachine is "absolutely irresistible and ultimately beneficial" as well as beyond resistance. Not so, says Mumford. The benefits of the Machine Age are a fraud...
Frequently, he uses an expression that disassociates him from the proceedings: a visual sigh suggesting that this dame is boring the life out of him, too; or a shake of the head, wondering where the devil this geek got all that garbage. He is often at his best when his material is worst-a handy knack for a man who has to come up with 60 laughs a minute. When a gag clunks to the floor, he'll say: "Never buy jokes from people on streets. Give 'em a quarter but never buy a joke from...
...teach modern management techniques on a graduate level. It operates a trade school in a Madrid working-class district known as "Little Moscow," a center for the ever-rebellious coal miners of Asturias, even maintains a "spiritual retreat" where bullfighters can escape at least the horns of the devil...
...ENLARGED DEVIL'S DICTIONARY by Ambrose Bierce. 300 pages. Doubleday...
...education on venomous hack work for West Coast literary journals and as a columnist for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. He never wrote anything longer than a short story; he was not in the habit of writing a paragraph when just a word would do. The Devil's Dictionary, a lexicon of Bierce's scorn for mankind and all its institutions -now expanded by material that the editors say has not been anthologized before-stands today not only as the distillation of Bierce's thought but as epigrammatic misanthropy bordering on genius...