Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Cotton Mather called a "college of divines" slowly grew. William Stoughton, '50, who grimly sentenced 20 people to death for witchcraft, was the first alumnus to donate a building. (By contrast, the Rev. George Burroughs, '70, duly became the only Harvard man to be hanged for consorting with Satan...
...counterpart, this 33-year-old writer from Liverpool is witty, unpredictable and concise. In these five tales, an aphrodisiac turns the world into a monkey house; a vagrant with a mass of knotted material seems to be playing with nothing less than DNA; a palace is built to entice Satan up from hell; hands rebel against the minds that move them; the dead and the living couple in a Texas motel. Each story involves an uncanny mix of eroticism and terror; each is an instance of headlong narrative. Barker, already celebrated in Britain, is about to surface...
...dayrooms of mental hospitals are famously filled with Napoleons. The Dry Tortugas might be the same sort of place. If, like Napoleon, the Big Boys consulted Paradise Lost, they would find there the words that Satan uttered: "Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell." Most dictators are not so self-aware...
...view The Crimson and its goals--either we spew mindless, evil propaganda or we ignore evil altogether and try to play to only the pure, clean interests of our community. One would turn us into a printer for the Moral Majority, the other into a printer for Satan. But we are a newspaper--or at least we try to be--and we try to fully report an issue by revealing all of its sides...
There is no great evil in Playboy, no Satan lurking in its messages. Nor is there an attempt to purify and protect society in The Crimson's decision not to run the ad. Simply, we could not tacitly support something which was so abhorrent to the majority of Crimson editors. We would not dare to insult Blacks by running an ad suggesting that they come to work in the diamond mines in South Africa, and we will not insult the women and men on The Crimson who regarded it that seriously...