Word: satanically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Death of Satan. As the curtain went up last week on Poet Ronald Duncan's play, three comfortable chaps were reading newspapers in a club in Hell. One by one they revealed their faces: Shaw, Wilde, Byron. Happy shades, they play poker for their professional reputations ("I'll wager Mrs. Warren's Profession"-"I'll raise you Childe Harolde") and tolerate Satan, dressed as a clergyman, as he steals their jokes...
With whetstoned humor, but marred by too many obvious jokes and an inadequate production, the play leads Don Juan back to Hell, where Satan is in bed sick at heart, cursing his doctor ("that damned Faustus with his ridiculous penicillin"). When Don Juan reports that men on earth "have freed themselves of belief," Satan dies. The moral is obvious but far from negligible: without God, there can be no Devil...
...road to Damascus was simply an attack of the disease. The symptoms are typical-the light, the falling, the temporary blindness. Supporters of this hypothesis point to Paul's mysterious reference (II Corinthians 12:7-9) to his suffering from a "thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan," and this significantly follows a passage in which he tells of a man (usually taken to be himself) who "was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter." This neat theory has one important drawback, however: if the illness...
...sappy women been appointed to go in deep mourning and wail around the Governor, and implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot. Injun Joe was believed to have killed five citizens of the village, but what of that? If he had been Satan himself, there would have been plenty of weaklings ready to scribble their names to a pardon petition, and drip a tear on it from their permanently impaired and leaky waterworks...
...Robinson triumphed over Old Nick (played by David Wayne) at week's end in NBC-TV's version of Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster. As Webster, Robinson bargained eloquently for the soul of a New England farmer who had sold out to Satan for material wealth. During rehearsals, Rumanian-born Actor Robinson allowed: "I wouldn't want television as a steady diet. It's back-breaking work...