Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Diamond." As The Encounter begins, Father Cawder is glumly refusing a gift of pew cushions from a wealthy widow in his Maryland parish. The incident reveals the man: he suspects comfort as the devil's lure, believes the essence of faith is self-denial. Yet, while Father Cawder lives by his ascetic creed, he tortures himself with the suspicion that his attitude is rooted in vanity...
...season, Manhattan galleries had bulged with abstract art done in the latest, or devil-may-care style. Some weeks, four and five such shows were running at once (TIME, Feb. 20). Serious and respected practitioners had taken to dribbling paint onto their canvases from buckets; others seemed to be painting blindfold, with bent spoons. The effects were startling, and in some avant-garde circles, awe-inspiring. Here, a few critics maintained, was the art of the future...
...Hill, 45, brass-voiced blues singer in the oldtime Bessie Smith tradition; after being hit by an automobile; in Harlem. Chippie would try any request from her stomping audiences except a hymn: "You can't play with God in a nightclub ... As long as I work for the Devil, I better continue with...
...Typical was a dramatic production put on at a recent meeting of 55 Egyptian and other Near Eastern bottlers in Cairo. Protagonist was Barsoum, a Coca-Cola Dealer with a fine Egyptian mustache and an uncertain faith in the product; for possession of his soul contended, like angel and devil, the Good Coca-Cola Salesman and a salesman of a competing soft drink, obviously representing the Forces of Evil. Another character was the Confused Coca-Cola Salesman, neither good nor bad but caught in the limbo of inadequate know-how. Under the influence of the competition's salesman, Barsoum...
...English history. In Star Money, it is stirred into the well-publicized life of the author herself. That is not to say that Star Money is autobiographical. Novelist Winsor primly asserts: "This novel is in no sense autobiographical." Yet the book gives a come-on as broad as the devil's front porch to the thousands who may buy the book for its confessional interest: the heroine, Shireen Delaney, is a beautiful doll who at 26 publishes a historical novel that is a tremendous bestseller...