Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reasonably sure of in these Festivals is that they will start with a play related in some way to religion, in accordance with the ecclesiastical traditions of the town. This year, at last, it was Everyman, the morality in which God, in a wig, does lusty battle against Satan for the soul of Man, before the ancient doors of the Salzburg Cathedral...
Centuries ago the princely archbishops of Falzburg, all-powerful in the city, gave welcome to the drama as a religious agent. They presented the pageant of Saints in Splendor, the drama of God and Satan warring for the soul...
...hour later, Professor Murray will speak in Harvard 3 on the man who according to some is the greatest living playwright--George Bernard Shaw, Shaw himself is said to have his doubts whether he looks more like Satan or Christ; so has the Vagabond. Also the Vagabond is in no position to discuss the merit of his plays but at least he can say that he is thinking very seriously of going to hear about an interesting character...
...quickening the corpse of Lazarus, 6) saving the Woman Taken In Adultery with the admonition, "he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone," 7) driving the money changers from the temple, 8) refusing the earthly crown of power, 9) resisting the temptation of Satan, 10) partaking of the Last Supper, 11) being tortured by the Roman centurions, 12) being condemned by the mob who chose Barabbas for pardon, 13) crucified, 14) hanging on the Cross while the earth is torn by melodramatic storm and quake, 15) rising from the tomb, 16) appearing again before...
...came. How she laughed." "Oh how can I express the joy of my soul or speak of the mercy of God." When he was not misspelling the journal of his days, Anthony Cornstock acted as president of the Society for the Prevention of Vice. In this capacity he hunted Satan, finding his prey sometimes in the guise of a bartender brandishing a pack of cards, more often as an abortionist fumbling with a contraceptive, most frequently as a pornographer raising the dark symbol of a dirty book. His chasing of pornographers did not always end with a clean capture. Over...