Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expect to bray like jackasses, and bark like dogs, crow like roosters, howl like wolves, kick like mules, run like lightning, lie like Satan-all for thee. And now, may faith, hope and power remain with thee until every vote is counted," et cetera...
...this is recalled the age-old attempts to create a human-like mechanism that could talk like a man. Albertus Magnus is said to have constructed one so perfect that his pious pupil, Thomas Aquinas, smashed the machine with a cane, saying that it was the work of Satan and that Satan was in it. In more recent years mechanical reproductions of the human throat have been attempted, but some of the vowel sounds could not be made to sound truly. For a long time organ manufacturers have tried to fashion a genuine " vox humana," a mechanical singing voice...
PEER GYNT? Ibsen's lyric of rebellion and ambition. Joseph Schildkraut plays the magnificent, ineffectual rebel. He drinks the joys of insurrection and finally tastes its dregs because he is not great enough to be a Prometheus or a Satan...
...basic legends of literature. There is the Faust motif in David's brief hour of the pleasure of giving which will cease when the last kopeck is gone; there is the Job motif in the curse that he suffers; there is a touch of Milton's Satan in the heroic defiance of Anathema; there is a strong suggestion of Stephen in the stoning of a Christlike man by the people "who know not what they...
...Crothers, "Satan Among the Biographers"; Professor G. H. Palmer, "Nature of Forgiveness"; Dr. C. W. Eliot, "Joy in Work"; Professor Wm. M. Davis, "Natural History of Goodness"; Professor Ephraim Emerton. "Academic Life"; Professor J. T. Murray, "Conflicting Ideals and Methods in Education...