Word: exorcist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Relish. Detailed arguments in the book often reappear contained in conversational sentences. For example, Huxley insists that men searching for evil do so from a sense of their own sinfulness. When the Archbishop in the play puts a temporary halt to Grandier's witch-trial and the chief exorcist complains that "the Archbishop has made evil impossible in this place," Whiting uncannily reveals the prosecutor's unconscious guilt...
Political Exorcist. Although he is far better known as the eloquent spokesman of American conservatism, Author Kirk has been writing ghost stories for years. He worked on Old House of Fear, his first novel, in the high, narrow Victorian house in Mecosta, Mich. (pop. 300), built by his great-grandfather. Kirk, a bachelor, occupies the house with an unmarried great-aunt, spends much of his time studying the family ghosts, whose personalities he claims to be able to distinguish...