Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fifty takers of LSD suffers brain damage, Lettvin charged, "I cannot see you, Tim, as anything but the tool of the devil...
...that victory, precisely because it will be triumph of all that is good over all that is good over all that is bad, will make all things possible--will open the gates to a new Utopia, whereas anything less than total victory would be a shameful compromise with the devil--a betrayal of all that is worth while. In his euphoria visions and concepts of the future peace become corrupted both by illusions of virtue and omnipotence addressed to oneself and equally unrealistic punitive aspirations unfortunately the conduct of the war effort, but interferes in the most serious way with...
...plot runs away with the play. John Webster obviously felt that the quicker he piled on new complexities, the wilder the fans would be. The Devil's Law Case is twelve hours worth of Batman squeezed into...
...best actors in the Ex production played with what-the-hell flamboyance. Timothy S. Mayer (the Devil's advocate) swept about the stage in a huge blue cape. He was as foxy as a Hollywood villain, as haughty as a Jacobean king. He relished his pronouncements like a small boy relishes his lemon drops. The worst actors stumbled towards self-effacement; Michael Boak (Sanitonella) became no more than an occasional buzz...
...fastnesses of the Pyrenees, bearing such unpronounceable names as Zugazagoitia and speaking a totally incomprehensible tongue, no longer conform to their old image. From Urzaingui to Munguia, they have taken up Spanish in place of their own archaic language-an agglutinated monstrosity that, according to Basque legend, even the Devil could not learn: in seven years of trying, he mastered only the words for yes (bai) and no (ez). More important, Basques by the hundreds of thousands have come out of their tight green mountain valleys and moved to the cities to become businessmen, industrialists and factory workers...