Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reynolds said, "We're not now about the Dining Halls. Last year a this time, we were worried as the devil." At this time last year, rising
Poison Speech. Minor roles at the Oxford Playhouse followed. Claire tried out for Webster's The White Devil, which was being put in production by Michael Benthall and Robert Helpmann. Says Benthall: "Suddenly, this little girl appeared and did the poison speech from Romeo and Juliet. She looked enchanting. More important, she had extraordinary technical equipment." The cast was already filled, but Benthall and Helpmann invented a new walk-on part so that they could keep an eye on Claire. When they took over the 1948 Shakespeare season at Stratford-on-Avon, Claire went along...
James McGee, who wrote The Temptation of Maggy Haggerty, is apparently one of these militant archaists who believe that anything invented after the death of Thomas Aquinas is the work of the devil. In Mother Haggerty's boarding house the villains are a quack doctor, advocate of machines, printed matter and the like, and a bearded rummy, whose claim to infamy is his intellectualism. As I see it, McGee wants Man to stand up on his hind legs and bury contaminated products of the modern world in the good, clean earth...
...Devil Rides Outside, by John H. Griffin. The turmoil of a young American torn between world and monastery; a first novel marked by crude energy and unashamed religious fervor (TIME...
...Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley. A skillful account of the epidemic of devil-possession which beset the French town of Loudun in the i/th century, and of the rash priest who burned for it (TIME...