Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the pattern of leadership which evolved in early New Deal days undoubtedly brought some measure of recovery, in Professor Robinson's view it also grievously ruptured the orderly traditional processes of U.S. democracy. To tighten his grip on the mass imagination, the President relied shamelessly on the "devil" theory of history. "Wall Street," "big businessmen," "reactionaries," "economic royalists" were tagged as villains. The logical legacy of the devil theory was the witch hunt. Professor Robinson implies that today's political " 'primitives' of limited intelligence," e.g., the McCarthyites, are the spawn of Roosevelt's intemperate...
...Devil Theory of History. At Roosevelt's inaugural in 1933, says Biographer Robinson, the U.S. was suffering from a paralytic failure of nerve. F.D.R.'s "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" injected the adrenaline of confidence into the fluttering heart of the nation's economy. It was followed by the wonder-and-blunder drugs-NRA, AAA, PWA, etc.-of the "First Hundred Days." The New Deal was born more or less by executive fiat, but Will Rogers probably echoed the electorate when he wrote, "I don't know what additional authority Roosevelt...
...Mephisto flourishes his cane. Behind the scenery, backstage spots begin to glow, lighting Singer Conner; as a result, Faust and the audience see the vision of Marguerite through a scrimmed hole in the middle of Faust's bookcase. Faust, enraptured, signs away his soul to the Devil, drinks the potion to restore his youth. While Mephisto struts about flashing his cape to distract the audience, Faust rips off his old-man disguise and springs forward as a young...
...Diabolarianism: The belief that while it may now be confidently asserted that there is no God it is not yet safe to say the same about the Devil...
...Officers of the U.S. Army's 803rd Engineer Aviation Battalion, stationed near London, have decided to award a plaque bearing a painted devil to the company with the poorest record of church attendance during Lent, with orders that it be displayed prominently for two weeks. "We want to instill the fear of the Lord in all our troops," said the chaplain...