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Word: satanic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indonesia, a sign showing a jowly Uncle Sam with a dagger at his throat had quietly disappeared. "It was the wind," explained grinning Indonesians. Near the reeking kali-kali (canals) off Merdeka Square, Moslem youth groups in straw hats drilled where young Communists once sang their favorite anthem: America, Satan of the World. Through the capital's dusty, palm-studded streets, army patrols quietly rounded up minor Red officials and led them off to secluded firing squads. And on walls, fences and curbstones blazed the angry slogan: "Sauté Aidit" (Fry Aidit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: In the Midst of Musharawah | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

LANGUAGE ON VACATION, by Dmitri A. Borgmann. The author is a word fanatic of the most ingenious order, producing a compendium of resolutely useless, teasingly fascinating information about anagrams, antigrams, palindromes. How many people can look at Satan and see Santa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Oct. 1, 1965 | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

Finally, Dante depicts Satan as stupid and ludicrous because that is ultimately Dante's vision of the nature of evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 23, 1965 | 7/23/1965 | See Source »

...sadistically rips out a fistful of his hair. More sympathetic episodes are artfully interspersed. In the second circle, for instance, Dante meets Paolo and Francesca and tells the touching story of their tragic love. Unhappily, the canticle concludes with a large and, to modern readers, faintly ludicrous letdown: Satan. The Old Gentleman looks like King Kong and does nothing but sit in his pit and chomp on Judas Iscariot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man for the Ages | 7/9/1965 | See Source »

Bergman and the cast sing two other marvelous tunes: one ("Let Us All Thank Satan for His Brew") is a highly sucessful imitation of a Negro spiritual. The other ("Crushing the Grape") hits with very clever lyrics and a snappy honky-tonk melody. Of the rest, only "My Fellows I Am Minded" is definitely second-rate...

Author: By Stephen L. Cotlen, | Title: The Robbers' Cave | 5/1/1965 | See Source »

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