Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leave, you try to apologize for playing devil's advocate. But Sutherland appears equally uncomfortable when confronted with your encouragement...
...open against the militarist, fascist Zionists? Who else could uncover a Central American conspiracy linking the United Fruit Co. and B'nai B'rith? Who else could resist the sensual, calculating Israeli agent Judith Hertz ("You have the body of a goddess but the soul of a devil")? Who else could interrupt an African chase to lecture streetwalkers in Lourenço Marques on the evils of colonialism...
Societies no longer paste posters in the Square, and no giant moneymakers -like Jean-Luc Godard's Sympathy for the Devil shown by the Lowel Film Society last year-were screened during the past term. Because Harvey had not complained this year, news of the agreement surprised most people...
...best fictional studies of madness, descent and purification that any American has written since Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Donald Newlove clearly set out to write a first novel about demoniac society. He has produced a combined morality play and grimoire, or devil's hornbook, in which every creature is experienced with hilarious or dreadful concreteness...
...later age steeped in blood and death and degraded values. The trouble is that rubbing one's nose in a mess is not the best method of cleaning it up. Tourneur tends to prod rather than persuade, and he is too cynical for compassion, too much the devil's advocate to indict devilishness in others...