Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Devil's Disciple is George Bernard Shaw. Lyric productions' latest captures only part of The Great Man's internal satire. He was fooling fewer people than he thought when he called this one "threadbare melodrama." At the Fine Arts...
...character-writing, Scriptwriter Robert Lewin explains his man. When the sergeant was a boy, his father died of drink; the boy's feelings, already numb with shame, were frozen fast with fright when his guardian, a religious fanatic, told him that his father had gone to the Devil, and that there, but for the grace of God, he would...
...grown man, the sergeant still mistakes the life of the flesh for the death of the soul. He carries his fanaticism as a scared child carries a candle in the dark, and so his whole world is filled with a black monster which he calls the Devil, because he cannot see that it is really his own shadow. Since it is wartime, the shadow falls readily on his German enemies, and he slaughters them with the righteous wrath of an avenging angel...
...piece of New Deal legislation, for instance, had been damned with more vehemence or ardor by the minority in the country and in Congress than the Wagner Act. By the tenets of the Republican diehards, it was the work of the devil. But far worse than devilish, some insisted it was "unconstitutional" and must be extirpated root and branch...
...theorist must pay for trying to analyze and rationalize, objectively, a political movement or trend which happens to be the object of hysterical attacks. But, if political thinkers or theorists must now, for self-protection, take such protective precautions, it will be a great loss to the community. The devil's advocate renders a real public service in any great debate...