Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slapstick can be funny. As a topic for comedy, the Bible is like sex: embarrassment or guilt provokes laughter where the mere humor of a joke might not. Needless to say. The Creation of the World and Other Business abounds with puns on the colloquial uses of "God," "the devil." "heaven," and "hell," as well as references to Adam and Eve's early sex life. The best of the humor is either trivial ("Pull up that leaf!" God admonishes Eve as he prepares to curse her) or virtually slapstick...
...work were composed by each of the four band members, "Witchy Woman" is typically early period. Stills, the song about the mysterious lady; it's right out of "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes." The guitar solo, though, has strong Springfield influences, particularly in tone and direction of attack. "Take the Devil" is similar. A trapped wanderer song, this shares with "Witchy Woman" many of the same desert images, as well as the same sense of attack on the part of the lead guitarist, either Glenn Frey or Bernie Leadon. The slow single note solo is again reminiscent of Springfield, as well...
...critics published in Modern Occasions have chosen to take on the responsibility of teaching the lessons they learned from lives peppered with intellectual and political combat--devil take the youth who may initially not care. That seriousness, coupled with lucid expression, makes the magazine essential. It may only reach people who style themselves teachers and critics, but they are more necessary to cultural progress than a generation of "counter-culture" once thought...
...Lord. The case raises other intriguing questions. What standing does the Lord have under California law? Does he ever concern himself with such mundane matters as money? Should he not be subpoenaed? But if so, where would the marshal go to serve the papers? And who but the devil himself would have the temerity to cross-examine...
Roszak struggles to be fair, but the scientist is the devil in his cosmology. The goal of science, B.F. Skinner once said, is the destruction of mystery. Roszak believes science has succeeded all too well. "Machines, gadgets," not to mention "the computers," represent "mankind tyrannized by the work of his own hands." Furthermore, he sees "objectivity," the scientific act of knowledge, as an act of alienation, if not of sacrilege. "Break faith with the environment," reads Roszak's version of the scientist's Faustian compact, "and you will surely gain power...