Word: diabolicalness
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What is Mailer's "American Dream?" It must be a whole horizon of dreams gone sour, not into nightmares but into that phantasmagoric horror of hallucinogens, where one feels the vomit recede back down the throat through massive pressure from neck muscles. The Valentino Dream of sexual power gone wild...
Eisenstein pits Nevsky against diabolic Swedes in brutal-looking helmets and flapping white robes. Nevsky's heroism is magnified by comparison with his lieutenants Buslai and Gavrilo--heroes on a more human scale.
Leaping to Nkrumah's defense, the Ghanaian Times recalled Franklin Roosevelt's 1937 attack on the U.S. Supreme Court, adding: "We cannot have a wig-and-gown cantata while Rome is burning. The nation cannot be bamboozled by the diabolic insinuations and aspersions of a confused and antagonistic...
It is the same diabolic Moeris, leader of the Council of Regency, leader of the vote for death and of those who would shield their dead, who tells Clytemnestra: "See: all is well. / It is the tournament of open minds / That settles things." "And patience," adds the court poet Aegon...
A Litany. To call someone an individual involves many personal and historic judgments as well as an endless play of paradoxes. In the litany of the saints of individuality, men have placed all the holy rebels and unholy dissenters, the blessed visionaries and diabolic prophets, the leaders and pioneers, the...