Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern Christians may well find some use for some of the pilgrim's practical pointers, such as the warning against letting prayer get sidetracked by "spiritual" thoughts. "If the [Devil] cannot turn us from prayer by means of vain thoughts and sinful ideas, then he . . . fills us with beautiful ideas, so that one way or another he may lure us away from prayer, which is a thing he cannot bear . . . [My teacher] taught me . . . not to admit during times of prayer even the most lofty of spiritual thoughts. And if I saw that, in the course...
...Beat the Devil. John Huston and Truman Capote while away an hour and a half with one of the shaggiest stories ever put on film: the year's orneriest picture, and one of its funniest (TIME, March...
...book, Raymond Radiguet died. Alice found evidence that the young author had stolen a diary in which she had described many an intimate scene with her husband, and used it to give his book verisimilitude. Gaston was not convinced. Time and again, he would cite a passage from Devil in the Flesh and confront his wife with it. "No," she would cry, "it is not true! The boy was only a child." Then, for a while, her husband would believe, and the couple would find an evanescent moment of happiness-only to lose it again in a new surge...
...they lived for nearly a quarter of a century, patching a life of torment into a counterfeit of happiness. Then, after World War II, the film version of Devil in the Flesh appeared, and all the old wounds were ripped open once again. Five years later, in 1952, Alice died. "Everything they wrote about us was untrue," she whispered to her husband as death approached. "I did nothing wrong." Already old in his late 50s, his spirit corroded by doubt, his neglected son a crippled invalid in the care of strangers, Gaston gazed at his dying wife...
...devils have fared much better at the hands of the artists than have their heavenly counterparts, the angels. It is seldom that you see a picture of a sickly-looking devil. Never is he feminine . . . Placing the artists' conception of a devil alongside their conception of an angel makes one wonder whether it is at all possible for good to overcome evil...