Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result is an embarrassing self-consciousness. Yet self-consciousness is what at this stage Jones' Black Power mission is really all about. "We are self-conscious now," he writes, "because we are trying to break from slavery. If we could see it continuously as people, as the devil collecting and using our energies to pervert the world, then there would be no pause, no rhetoric, only action, which is divine...
...clinic in Menlo Park. Washington, D.C., movement leader Denny Flanders tells drug users: "You can use drugs after Jesus, but you won't need them. If you become Christians, this is what has to happen." Convert Connie Sue McCartney, 21, of Louisiana, describes how "the devil came to me" and tempted her to return to speed. She had kept some in hand just in case, but she was up to the temptation: "I took it, flushed it down the John in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost." Former Houston Speed Freak Terry Vincent says...
...nation defensively obsessed with its identity make Israelis narrow and provincial? Such questions-especially the first-are raised by the veterans whose memories of the lightning war in 1967 are presented in The Seventh Day. It is as if the grandchildren of the original messiahs had discovered the devil in themselves. Says one soldier: "People are horrified at themselves, at how they'd been able to kill...
Among other things, the devil is a sexist pig. Even a cursory look through the literature of demonology discloses that he often negotiates with men but rudely possesses women. The Exorcist is about the possession of a young female, but it has nothing to do with literature. It is a pretentious, tasteless, abominably written, redundant pastiche of superficial theology, comic-book psychology, Grade C movie dialogue and Grade Z scatology. In short, The Exorcist will be a bestseller and almost certainly a drive-in movie...
...family physician bucks the case to a psychosomaticist, who flounders in jargon. It takes a young Jesuit psychiatrist-priest, equally familiar with the uses of Librium and prayer, to understand that Regan suffers from old-fashioned possession by the devil. Sometimes known as Captain Howdy, he speaks through Regan's mouth, fills her room with his bad breath and levitates furniture. Lacking any of the stature of his medieval forms or any of the wit of his 19th and 20th century literary incarnations, this devil seems little more than a pathetic old pedophiliac clinging to the mere body...