Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Devil but the Genes...
Sociobiology [Aug. 1], like other theories that deny the importance of the individual mind and conscience, will sweep the nation. Instead of saying, "The devil made me do it," one can now be scientific and say, "I can't help it; it's in my genes...
Makarios' concern for his flock was always political. He once said: "I would consort with the devil himself if it would keep Cyprus and its people independent." In 1956, as the fighting peaked between the British army and the Cypriots, Anthony Eden's government accused the ethnarch of fomenting rebellion and exiled him to the remote Seychelles Islands 3,000 miles from home. But when the British gave up the fight three years later, Makarios was elected President of the newly independent Republic of Cyprus...
...Starduster while listening to Strauss waltzes over his on-board earphones; another, goggled and scarfed like the Red Baron himself, eased his bulbous-nosed Der Jager into the friendly skies. There were also rides in a Ford Tri-Motor to be had for a mere $10 and the Red Devil Acrobatic Biplane Squad to watch as it performed an amazing array of intricate patterns and loops and dives...
...Beta Kappa from Pomona College and went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar where, as Kris Carson, he dabbled in pop music. After quitting both academe and the Army, he began drifting. At 29 he found himself in Nashville, and he began writing songs like The Silver-Tongued Devil, Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down and Me and Bobby McGee...