Word: fiendishly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students love it. Whether the popularity of Slavic 155 can be attributed to the fiendish length of the reading assignments (second largest in the Colleges, next to Professor Levin's "Proust, Joyce and Mann"), to the accrbic brilliance of the instructor, or simply to the fascination of the reading itself, there is no doubt that Poggioli is one of the most unorthodox lecturers around. His students are attracted to him as inevitably as he is to wisecracks. And while he always lectures with a pipe in his teeth, he does not always notice that it is sometimes upside down...
Seldom have characters leaped as brilliantly from the printed page to TV life. Basil Rathbone hammed magnificently as the fiendish Duke ("We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked"). Roberta Peters as the imprisoned Princess was so appealing visually and vocally that it was hard to believe she had raced to the TV studio straight from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, where she had sung the young shepherd role that evening in Tannhäuser. Baritone John . Raitt confidently managed the always difficult job of making a masculine hero of Prince Charming, and top honors in the superb...
...after his capture by North Korean Communists. Dean's fellow countrymen understood that the totalitarians fight for men's minds and use lies and torture to make prisoners cooperate with them. Dean became a new kind of hero, a symbol of the hundreds of Americans who, under fiendish pressure, had remained loyal to their country...
...turns up'; the Chicago newspaper ad, 'Bullet holes rewoven perfectly' . . . and the Japanese battle cry, 'Go to hell, Babe Ruth-American, you die.' " Simon & Schuster, old hands at publishing quiz books, have this to say: "Live Them Again is a parlor game matching the fiendish delights of crossword puzzles, Ask Me Another and Twenty Questions. Do you know, for instance, who inspired the quip, 'There but for the grace of God goes God?' Who started network on-the-field play-by-play broadcasting? Who was Herbert Hoover's running mate...
...Scots were riled; they are proud of windswept Carnoustie, chiefly because of its jagged hillocks, fiendish traps and stubbly greens. One crusty old codger on a shooting stick spoke up for all of Scotland: "Hogan talks a bloody lot about the greens and a bloody lot about his putter; he should put the two together and shut...