Word: satanic
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...salesmen were hard at work as dramatic show after dramatic show peddled the quintessential goodness of man in one well-contrived happy ending after another. On the TV Reader's Digest, a lantern-jawed angel of goodwill named Charlie Faust did for the New York Giants what only Satan could accomplish for the Washington Senators in the Broadway musicomedy Damn Yankees. On Chrysler's Climax!, Betty Furness and Franchot Tone went to the trouble of killing off an expendable playboy on the operating table to bring understanding back to a busy doctor and his restless wife. The happiest...
...from the realm of blind faith to that of reason, they became deathless elements in the heritage of Western man. Yet in medieval times they led a shadowy life indeed. The church treated them as peasant superstitions (the Roman pagus was a country district), or turned them into demons. Satan, for example, inherited hooves and horns from the great god Pan. It remained for the Renaissance to bring the gods back into the sunlight...
Truth & Birth Control. Astute believes that his denomination alone has the truth and that the ecumenical movement is "the literal incarnation of Satan." He advises against birth control because it cuts down on the church's membership, cautions against discussing the race problem or labor-management relations because they are too controversial. But he does have his unorthodox moments: "I have long held the opinion-privately, of course-that the Sermon on the Mount is the most im practical nonsense I have ever read...
...Queen of Sheba's Nightmare is a worldly-wise little story in which the Queen is persuaded by Satan that the rapturous "Song" that King Solomon has just sung to her is the same one he has sung to every other woman. This fable of woman's mingled love and suspicion of flattery makes one wish that Author Russell's artistic powers were up to the standard of his intelligence. The moral (for ladies only): Better be fooled by a man than put wise by the Devil...
...once, Lola has failed to get what Lola wants, the same cannot be said of the audiences who pack the theater eight times weekly to cheer her efforts. As a seductress with a sense of humor, Lola may seriously disappoint her Satanic master in the play, but as the most incendiary star on Broadway, Gwen Verdon does fine by her real-life boss, Director George Abbott, a genius of the darkling hours often credited with a magic as mysterious as Satan...