Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defense will undoubtedly use a number of Hinckley's rambling verses to buttress its portrayal of the would-be killer as a tortured psychotic who cannot be held accountable for his actions. "[Pretend] you are Satan's long-lost illegitimate son/ a solitary weed among the carnations," Hinckley wrote in one poem, "a child without a home/ the loser of a one-man race." Another verse notes: "I have become what I wanted to be all along, a psychopathic poet...
...long now, generations have been bedeviled with the idea, formally called romanticism, that human knowledge has no limits, that man can become either God or Satan, depending on his inclinations. The rider to this proposition is that some human minds are more limitless than others, and wherever that notion finds its most eager receptacles, one starts out with Byron and winds up in Dachau. To be fair, that is not all of romanticism, but it is the worst of it, and the worst has done the world a good deal of damage. For the 18th century, man was man-size...
...reunified Jerusalem in 1967, the population has climbed from 275,000 to 407,000, and more than 1.1 million visitors pour in every year. The fortress-like apartment towers clustered on the once bare hills surrounding the city now extend to the very edge of the desert wilderness where Satan tempted Jesus; and though the walled Old City surrounding the holy shrines is still redolent of cinnamon and roasting lamb and hashish and donkey turds, the twisting alleys leading onto the Via Dolorosa (Sorrowful Way) are covered with paving stones rather than mud. Even the cats-Jerusalem has a remarkable...
...Primeval Snake, the Evil One, Satan. The Cabala refers to me as Samael and the Jews sometimes call me merely 'that...
...automatically do a mental calculation discounting the rhetoric, the fact is that different auditors discount at different rates. It is often difficult to know just how much exaggeration is involved, and how much truth. If Iranians pumping their fists in the air describe the U. S. the "Great Satan," how much of that is homicidal hostility, how much is merely Persian literary style...