Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WOODSTOCK, N.Y., Woodstock Playhouse: Little Mary Sunshine (coy heroine) is threatened (egads) with foreclosure (hiss), but (just in time) her hero comes to the rescue. ANDOVER, N.J., Gristmill Musical Playhouse: Damn Yankees still keeps bringing them in even though the real-life Yankees seem to have gone to the devil...
...hapless heroes of the Broadway musical Damn Yankees were so hopelessly stuck in seventh place that only the Devil could help them win the league pennant. It was art imitating life, except that in the late 1950s the Devil himself could not rescue the real-life Washington Senators. They were the most miserable team in the American League...
...could forgive the film's historical mistakes if it had been honest in what it had shown, if it had not protected those persons who deserved criticism. But changing Mayer's name to Everett Redman, and making him into a kind, fatherly type, is pleasing the Devil, not protecting the innocent. Hollywood still has a lot of growing up to do when it can manufacture a film about moviemaking in the 1930's and conceal the character and identity of the biggest power in that industry...
...with one of the Government agencies that test your personality via the MMPI quiz, upon receiving the test I would first scratch the tender top of my head, look around to see if someone was watching, then proceed to brood over my strange sex life, occasionally invoking the Devil while thinking bad, often terrible, words to fortify my strange and peculiar thoughts. Trying to be casual, I would then light a match, which is normal procedure before my daily conversation with God. After completing the quiz, I would leave the room (carefully using my new handkerchief on the doorknob...
First to be rehabilitated was Joe Stalin himself, whom Nikita had savagely pulled down in the official myth from demigod to scapegoat-devil. Two months ago, Kremlin spokesmen raised Moscow eyebrows by giving Stalin his due for helping Russia stem the Nazi tide. Next victim to be reprieved from obscurity was Marshal Georgy Zhukov, who showed up, replete with honors and ribbons, for last month's V-E-day celebrations in Red Square. Finally, after a decade in the doghouse, the wartime chief and "father" of the Soviet navy, Admiral Nikolai G. Kuznetsov, surfaced with the publication of excerpts...