Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short-wave radio, the rubber-covered truncheon or the loaded automatic also found in the car. Next day, France's top Communist,* caught flagrante delicto, was led before a justice of the peace and held for "attempt against the security of the state" (maximum but unlikely penalty: Devil's Island). Holding his handcuffs aloft, Duclos told reporters: "There's democracy for you, messieurs; admire it!" More than 700 other rioters were arrested that same night; more than 200 were wounded and one Communist rioter lay dead...
...people of Mexico, combining the traditions of our ancient cultures with the contributions brought by the Spanish invasion. Along with the expressive potency of their forms and colors," Rivera adds darkly, "the masks have the black humor that enables our people to laugh at death and the devil, follow funeral processions with music and fireworks, and eat skulls of sugar...
...probably fictitious residential neighborhood. In consequence, we have lost all feeling of crisis in this life, and as for a future life, if we neither believe in hell nor in heaven, what is there left of interest in the whole idea? We are becoming a humanity without God or devil. We could not care less. This seems to me to be uncommonly like the fitting motto for the worst kind of hell, and we are on our way towards...
...Nick Carter dialogue to suit my taste. The writers manage to generate tension by the usual device of the twist ending and by figuring out original and pleasantly complicated plots. Once you get by the first page or so of each story--during which you cannot imagine what the devil is going on--you find it quite exciting. And added to these stories are long and somewhat technical expositions on one feat or another of American scientists--in the May issue, the Brookhaven Atomic Plant is discussed...
...over the demise of "Birth of a Nation" may I say that it deserved to die? All of these things are matters of degree as Justice Douglas pointed out in the "released-time" decision. Now while I am with you all the way in the cases of "Oliver-Twist," "Devil in the Flesh," and "The Miracle," I think that the film you mourn goes far south of that borderline which divides mere bad taste from bigotry and race hatred. Each case should be decided on its particular merits. "Birth of a Nation" has few. At least too few to justify...