Word: devilments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Devil you depict could not seduce even Lena the Hyena. Nothing like him was ever kicked out of Heaven. Fact is the Devil is good-looking ... he has a Clark Gable mustache and a widow's peak like Robert Taylor...
Lewis & the Devil...
...sing a hymn in a nightclub. "Now that's wrong. You can't play with God in a nightclub; if you do He'll put an affliction on you." Neither will she sing in church. "As long as I work for the Devil, I better continue with him. You got to sing for the Devil or go to Church and not talk back. When I get myself a man who will pull up a table to me and set like folks, I'll give up singing for the Devil, but until then...
...Every trace of bitterness, anger, clamor, malice, idolatry, deceit, apathy in man's character is sufficient manifestation of a live devil for most discerning Protestants...
...Auden, et al.) is one of a growing band of heretics among modern intellectuals: an intellectual who believes in God. It is not a mild and vague belief, for he accepts "all the articles of the Christian faith"-which means that he also believes in sin and in the Devil. After sneezing, he was once heard to murmur that it was "because of the Fall." He was referring, not to the season, but to the Fall of Man, which Christian theology holds responsible for the major disorders of mankind. Lewis is scornful of many modern intellectual and moral fashions...