Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German soul, the bouncy original lyrics were worked over until the death-wish showed through. Time on My Hands originally saw "nothing but love in view"; Marlene's version points out darkly that "the end has to come sooner or later." Taking a Chance on Love, once a devil-may-care ditty, pictures a cross standing "in the evening gold," marking the end of life and love. Translated excerpt (a German soldier speaking...
...lady was supposed to sit on them at midnight to comb her grey hair. One stone built into a church carried a strange local legend. A farmer told Mrs. Rudge that the people who built the church brought the pudding stone down from a hill, and three times the devil carried the stone back to its lone hilltop. So the church was built on the hill, and the stone stayed with...
...used to suffer through pre-meet agonies. "In my first meet," he says, "I kept thinking about that 1,500 meters I was going to have to run [the last event in the decathlon]. It always scared the devil out of me." But gradually he learned to "just keep thinking about the event I'm in while I'm competing in it. They don't give you points for worrying...
...does one reduce the idea of God and the Devil to scientific terms? In Jung's view, they are manifestations of age-old archetypes present in the more obscure layers of the human mind since the earliest times. Jung's discovery of these archetypes dates from before 1912 when, as an associate of Freud, he noted that myths, fairy tales and religious visions were similar in many ways to dreams, and could, like dreams, be interpreted as emanations from the unconscious mind. Jung also noted that the myths and religious symbols of widely differing peoples and epochs...
Slumping Harem. The ocean bred its gay as well as its devil dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women...