Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that man has a soul. And by soul, Jung means not just a psychiatric psyche but the old-fashioned kind that might even go to heaven. He is an unabashed user of the word "spiritual," and a strong believer in the practical utility of conceptions like God and the Devil. Unlike the orthodox followers of Sigmund Freud, who attribute most of mankind's mental troubles to the sexual conflicts of infancy, Jung maintains that the religious instinct is as strong as the sexual, and that man ignores it at his peril. Though his ideas cut freely into areas traditionally...
...DEVIL'S ADVOCATE (375 pp.)-Taylor Caldwell-Crown...
...says the hero of Devil's Advocate, looking back almost 40 years, the U.S. elected to the Presidency a man "whose twisted mind stands out against the black background of history like a conflagration." By his "Machiavellian villainy," the workers were induced to sell their birthright of freedom for a mess of security, the farmers were bribed with subsidies into fatted acquiescence, the middle class was almost obliterated...
...this desperate situation the leaders of the U.S. Underground of 1970-the secret society of "Minute Men"-employed a desperate and ingenious remedy. They infiltrated the government, worked themselves into the highest positions, and there began to play devil's advocate with a vengeance. That is, they intensified the tyranny to such an intolerable degree that the people at last revolted. Ironically, it was of course upon their saviors that the chief fury of the people fell, and many a Minute Man perished in the freedom he had provoked...
...Devil's Advocate, bestselling Novelist Caldwell (This Side of Innocence, Dynasty of Death) has laid aside her wand of romance and taken up the cudgel of politics from what can only be described as a new position, the Neanderthal Right. The only other remarkable thing about Devil's Advocate is that, in its first five weeks, it sold nearly 35,000 copies and according to Retail Bookseller, was the bestselling novel in the U.S. for a week...