Word: manichean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilbur Flick, the poor little rich boy, after running through a couple of wives and a great deal of money, finally sops his conscience by becoming the angel of a minuscule Communist front organization. Ellen Terhune's entire life is oppressed by her guilty sense of the past. The Manichean heresy that God and the Devil are each in control of half the world, a heresy which the New England ministers of the seventeenth century all unwittingly dramatized into the permanent fabric of American thought, captures the soul of Asa Stryker eventually to destroy...