Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bottomless reservoir of adrenaline. The program had sped by much too fast. Smitten, I hungered to go back. Missed cues, memory lapses, technical distractions, the guest's curve balls, the occasional fumbling efforsts at easy conversation?all these had brought terrors, but they they were terrors shared by dare-devil drivers and talk-show hosts alike: they only heightened the thrill. I understood, too, the performer's need for approval. I accosted total strangers backstage, demanding of them line-by-line opinions of the program, insistently playing back to them my own version of my triumph...
Catching the Devil...
...John Lateran blindfolded and, after saying certain specific prayers, grasp a saintly figure, which would become the lawyers' patron. Yves, catching hold of an image, cried: "This is our saint!" Removing his blindfold, he was horrified to find that he had laid hold of the figure of the devil under the feet of St. Michael...
...march through Cicero in which King was hit by a brick. He told me about the firecrackers that sounded so much like gunshots and the rocks and the eggs and the fear. Then he said, "You know man, with all that shit flying around, I wondered what the devil I was doing out there. Then I looked at Martin, marching like he had everything under control, and I kept walking. There was no way you couldn't believe...
What he yearns for is a therapeutic attachment for his gadget so that he can cure as well as diagnose. Before long, he is in the hands of an ultramodern devil named Art Immelmann, who claims to be the liaison man for the somehow still-functioning Rockefeller-Ford-Carnegie foundations. Art explains that all three are anxious to fund lapsometer research in return for patent rights. Dr. More signs them over, and in no time at all the device is being used to foment further disorder. As a satire the book has something to offend just about everyone. Conservative Catholics...