Word: devilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beastly Nature. If the Devil is a woman, her name is undoubtedly Lady Wu. She was Cleopatra, Catherine the Great and Lucrezia Borgia rolled into one, and from A.D. 655 to 704, first as Empress and later as "female Emperor," she subjected China to a reign of unprecedented terror. In this lightly fictionalized and gruesomely readable account of her career, Lin Yutang dispassionately describes the nature of the beast and the events of an era that still stands as history's most horrible experience of petticoat government...
WHATEVER became of Faust? His pact with the Devil is well remembered, not to mention his unfortunate affair with Gretchen. Less familiar is the fact that he was rehabilitated, at least in Goethe's version. He ended up in charge of a kind of symbolic public-works program, draining swamps and reclaiming land from the sea, thus creating new territory where millions might live "not in security, but active and free." To Goethe, the serene humanist poet, it seemed like the perfect task for a character snatched back from the brink of damnation...
...WITH GOD AND NOT THE DEVIL...
Died. Robert Watson, 77, actor, best known as the screen impersonator of Adolf Hitler in World War II movies (The Devil with Hitler. The Hitler Gang), a onetime vaudevillian (from Springfield, 111.), whose striking resemblance to der Fuhrer caused so much heckling that he ate in his dressing room and spent his nonworking hours alone in a trailer he named Berchtesgaden; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...himself a nordestino, and here he again celebrates his brawling frontier city of Ilhéus and its quick-witted, hard-driving people. His big, lusty novel turns on the long land war between Colonel Horacio da Silveira, who is rumored to have sold his soul to the Devil, and the ferocious Badaró brothers, Juca and Sinhõ. Neither Juca nor Colonel Horacio would dream of having a face-to-face showdown in Ilhéus' main street, but each knew that every tree, every clump of bushes, every dark alley might conceal an assassin...