Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Satan & Survival
...quick glance at TIME's Aug. 25 cover of Ulbricht, and I thought the story was on Satan. A brilliant drawing of the goateed German gnome! I guess my initial impression wasn't far from the truth...
...death penalty accepted as inevitable (though the 13-year-old state of Israel has never hanged anyone before), some Israelis wonder what should be done with Eichmann's body. A former inmate of a Nazi death camp explained, "We cannot profane the Holy Land by burying that Satan here. But if we send the body to Argentina or Germany, neo-Nazis will make a shrine of his grave." His solution: "Dump the corpse in midocean, or send it into outer space...
...Bite on Boldly." Violence is vivid in the mysteries; Herod's soldiers slaughter three infants onstage, and even modern audiences blanch at green-faced, gloating Satan hissing among the writhing sinners before pitchforking them through the fanged jaws of Hell. Biblical characters have a buttonholing immediacy, like doddering, officious Noah, who groans...
Much of the dialogue rings with alliterative beauty. Satan coaxes Eve to "Bite on boldly be not abashed"; Eve echoes to Adam, "Bite on boldly," and rueful Adam grieves that he has betrayed God and "Broken his bidding bitterly...