Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pastor of Manhattan's Calvary Baptist Church, he set up a small radio station, WQAO, in the basement of his church, and took to the air with his evangelistic message. Said Pastor Straton: "I hope that our radio system will prove so efficient that when I twist the Devil's tail in New York, his squawk will be heard across the continent...
...seems to me Benedictine Graham has entirely missed the point of Thomas Merton's teaching where lay people are concerned. Far from advocating that we turn our backs on the world, "letting it go to the devil in its own way," Father Louis shows us how to reach greater faith, serenity and courage to live in the world of today...
Again, the selection of the corporation will reflect its view on the world situation as it pertains to the University. The early group which by-passed Mather's ultra-conservatism and ignored his boast to eliminate the devil seems to have been justified by Harvard's successful growth...
...Bwana Devil (Arch Oboler; United Artists) is the first feature-length picture to be filmed in three-dimension, Hollywood's hottest new trend. The story is strictly onedimensional: an intrepid engineer triumphantly helps build a railroad line in British East Africa in spite of the opposition of a couple of man-eating lions...
Photographed in Ansco color with the Natural Vision process (special polarized glasses for viewers), Bwana Devil gives a blurry illusion of depth. Producer-Writer-Director Arch Oboler, onetime radio scriptwriter, uses three-dimension as a trick rather than a creative tool. The moviegoer seems to see a lion leaping into his lap, a native throwing a spear from the screen. But even in 3-D, Bwana Devil is a singularly flat adventure yarn...