Word: mephisto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonic repertory, New York City Opera General Director Julius Rudel is toying with the idea of producing Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (in which Treigle would play yet another Mephistopheles) and Busoni's Doktor Faust (in which Treigle would switch roles and appear as Faust, leaving Mephisto to some diabolic tenor...
Among more blatantly commercial novels, there are a couple of noteworthy categories. One is already known in the trade as Rosemary's Babies, since Ira Levin's bestseller (4,400,000 sales in paperback alone) has clearly inspired others to deal with the devil. Among them: The Mephisto Waltz by Fred Mustard Stewart (a pianist kills and inhabits the body of a long-fingered friend), and Don't Rely on Gemini by Vin Packer (the Corsican brothers in outer space). The last author is pseudonymous, but he has to come from Green...
Others see him as more of a Mephisto, who is intent on denying either major challenger a majority of the electoral vote. He could then swap his support for a "covenant"-as he calls it-with the candidate who agrees to advance his policies. Besides the predictable Southern vote, Wallace hopes to get a big chunk of the Goldwater Republican and dissident Democratic vote in the North. Historically, the odds are against his achieving the goal he seeks; only twice has an election been deadlocked and decided by the U.S. House of Representatives. The last: in 1824, when John Quincy...
Candy is awakened to the joys of giving by her philosophy professor, a lecherous old phony named Mephisto. "To give of oneself fully," he tells a completely snowed Candy, "is a beautiful and thrilling privilege." Mephisto is not urging Candy to plunge into SNCC work...
...action opens in the latter region, where His Satanic Majesty has acquired a painful sty in his evil little eye. This, his ministers agree, is when a fellow needs a fiend. They remind Mephisto that "a woman's chastity is a sty in the Devil's Eye.'' and point out the perfection that has caused his infection-the virgin daughter (Bibi Andersson) of an innocent country parson (Nils Poppe). "Where innocence is greatest.'' Mephisto murmurs wickedly, "evil is nearest...