Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explosion of science, the bitter claims to social justice in old nations and new. Catholic theology, dominated by a textbook scholasticism, appeared to have stopped in the 13th century. Except by a few pio neer ecumenists, Protestants were unhesitatingly regarded as heretics. When not openly despised as the devil's realm, the modern world was at least suspect...
...movie consistency. When evidence turns up that Ray is a rival author, the Almighty is more or less exonerated, leaving this inspirational British thriller with no suspect worth a second thought. Actor Nigel Patrick directed Nobody and also cast himself as the sleuth-priest, thereby risking double jeopardy. The devil knows...
...devil is dancing with me! Madness, take me and destroy me!" So, in anguished scrawls, wrote Composer Gustav Mahler in the margins of his Tenth Symphony. Slowly dying of a streptococcus infection, he was torn between periods of black despair and intimations of immortality - all of which he attempted to pour into the five-movement Tenth, which was to be the last great testament of his life. But in 1911, before he could complete it, the disease killed...
...years old, makes reference to evacuation-generally to some form of erotic evacuation. The filth is rationalized as social protest and enshrined in religious allegory: Jones explicitly identifies himself with Dante ("Dante, me") and describes his life as a Dantesque descent into a hell called America, in which the devil is a white man and his victims are all Negroes named LeRoi Jones...
...When you become a target of the Ku Klux Klan," he told the broadcasters, "you soon learn that if there ever was a devil on the face of this earth, it lives, it breathes, it functions in the cloaked evil of the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan...