Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lieut. Colonel Wilfred Burton, who teaches English, is that the Army exists to defend freedom and "preserve the dignity of man," but to do that, its officers must first "know the nature of man." Burton exposes students to such contemporary writers as W. H. Auden and Edward Albee, plays devil's advocate by roaring at his classes: "Army officers are just machines, aren't they? If they're told to go out and massacre the innocents, they go out and massacre the innocents!" He grins when a cadet politely but heatedly objects, "We just...
...other hand, Pike is widely excoriated as a grandstanding publicist, a Unitarian in Episcopal robes, even an atheist in disguise. The Rev. Glen Braswell, executive secretary of the Colorado Baptist General Convention, fumes at Pike as "a prophet of the devil. He UPI is nonChristian, and as a theologian he is attempting to destroy the Christian faith...
...When the old Imam Ahmad ("Ahmad the Devil") ruled Yemen, justice was swift-and final. Enemies were decapitated and their heads carried around town on long poles. Lesser offenders lost their hands or feet. Last week General Abdullah Sallal, leader of the Egyptian-backed regime that overthrew the Ahmad dynasty in 1962, borrowed a leaf from Ahmad's book of horrors. In little more time than it took to cock a rifle, he staged a drumhead trial for seven of his former colleagues, including an ex-Cabinet Minister, then sent them swiftly to their deaths before a firing squad...
...getting more and greater quarterbacks, more and greater receivers," Ara says. "Maybe vitamins are part of it too." Compared to 6-ft. 1-in., 190-lb. Terry Hanratty, Gus Dorais, at 5 ft. 7 in. and 145 Ibs., was practically a midget; he would have had the devil's own time trying to spot Knute Rockne over the heads of today's massive linemen. And how would Rockne, at 5 ft. 8 in. and weighing 145 Ibs., compare with a giant like Jim Seymour? But in college football today, rangy, strong-armed passers like Hanratty and rawboned, speedy...
...society. Bunuel heightened the power of the theme with photography and cutting. Using simple, almost formal, camera movement to create a sense of Simon's grandeur and isolation, Bunuel undercuts the effect with his cynical dialogue and ironic ending (Simon understands the futility of his faith when the Devil takes him into the future to a Greenwich Village discotheque...