Word: devilment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...misstatement. It is rather a veiled explanation of the truth. The transformation from fact to myth is endlessly fascinating. The battle of Achilles and Hector, for example, is symbolic, but there was a Trojan War in which great heroes fought. The psychological duel between Faust and the Devil is a philosophical and psychological metaphor, but Georg Faust, a German magician who was born about 1480, did live and did make claims to superhuman power, including the ability to restore the lost works of Plato and Aristotle and to repeat the miracles of Christ. Yet it was not until poets like...
...Hounds of the Radziwills. J'aime Joys. Menasha Troy. Ladonna Oldsmobile. Teas Eliot. Troubles With My Cant, by Green Grams. Against Impenetration, by Su Sanstag. Joseph Awfulsop. Devil's Avocado. Schwahili (the language spoken by Schweitzer). Dr. Dyingstone, I exhume...
...three new members of the congregation-a Jewish student in his 20s, a young woman dancer and a three-year-old black-and-Puerto Rican boy adopted by a white family. As incense billowed up toward the rafters, the Rev. Eugene Monick, 42, intoned: "Do you renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world . . . and the sinful desires of the flesh . . . ?" Then he cupped water onto the forehead of each of the baptismal candidates and daubed them with Magic Marker in the sign of the cross. Afterward the congregation hoisted the newly baptized...
Late in the Summer of '69 the Santa Anna or "devil wind" shot down from the California hills at 100 miles an hour, brittling dispositions and trees alike, preparing those few signs of life in Los Angeles for an Indian summer of death which, though matching other years in the strength of its demonic energy and violence, would once and for all implant the Fear in the hearts of millions of Americans. The wind came, people sweated, lay in bed asleep, took Excedrin; the crime rate went up 75 per cent; and Charles Manson...
...senses that she would really like to cut a good deal deeper. Why does she restrain herself? She has image, language, an actor's sympathy that lets her inhabit as well as observe characters. If she had fully released her rage, this impish novel could have been a devil of a book...