Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everybody will agree with you. But how long can this nation live in constant fear without getting a generation of neurasthenics or, what is worse, a generation of the devil-may-care variety. Why wait for "the approaching deadlock"? Why wait for the time when "each has the power to smash the other into radioactive rubble"? Why not attack the enemy first...
...real trouble with the French is that the people as a whole have ceased to become Christian without yet becoming outright atheistic. No wonder they are proving useless for either God or the Devil...
...came back from the dead. Released from a brainwashing camp somewhere in the Soviet Union, he arrived in East Germany to take over "a military post." When the Communists formally recognize their "People's Police" as a full-fledged East German army, West Germans now expect that "the Devil's General," as they call Schörner, will become either...
According to a current survey by the French National Research Council, 15% of French parents still beat the devil out of their children with a form of cat-o'-nine-tails, a contraption of wood and thongs known to the French as le martinet. Town kids get walloped more often but less severely than their country cousins, who are, says the survey, the "happiest and dirtiest" in the nation...
...rest of the cast--especially William Harrigan as the Bishop--are able performers. Paul Lukas receives top billing in the role of Baron de Balbus, but this time the devil receives more than his due. Once he learns his lines, however, Lukas will be suitably suave in a part patterned after something Adolphe Menjou might...