Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Same day, Moralist Nehru got an answer. In Bombay with other Western and Indian intellectuals attending a Congress of Cultural Freedom, Swiss Moralist Denis de Rougemont (The Devil's Share) drew applause from his Indian audience as he developed a parable on neutrality. Said Calvinist De Rougemont...
Student Shen Yu-sheng: "Before liberation I read American pornographic periodicals, movie magazines and novels about psychological perverts . . . If it had not been for Chairman Mao and the Communist Party, I would either have sold my soul to the devil or taken my life...
...Blight of Day. Bierce, who defined birth as "the first and direst of all disasters," was born in an Ohio log cabin in 1842, the tenth of 13 children. His godly parents never spared the birch rod, but young Ambrose was notably full of the devil nonetheless. Once, when a camp meeting was in full swing, he and a brother took an old white horse, wrapped it in straw, set that afire, and sent the blazing animal galloping into the midst of the hallelujah-shouting revivalists...
...Bierce fled the family farm and the "unwashed savages," as he later called his parents, worked as a printer's devil for two years. When the Civil War broke out, he was among the first to enlist. Soldier Bierce did well; he served bravely at Shiloh and Chickamauga, marched into Georgia with Sherman, wound up a lieutenant. As a staff officer, he caught off-duty glimpses of such top brass as Sheridan and Grant. Of Grant's tippling, he recalled: "I don't think he took enough to comfort the enemy-not more than I did myself...
...macabre tales. In one, a father is decapitated by a mowing machine, in another a man bashes in his wife's head with a mallet, in a third a dog gnaws on the bones of a child. His general nausea for mankind erupted into the epigrams of The Devil's Dictionary. Samples...