Word: satanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will certainly list it. For Mencken, "quite devoid of the religious impulse," makes of religion his unholy hobby, traces its history with ingenuity, learning, logic, comes to the conclusion that Christianity is on the decline, is glad of his conclusion. Says Mencken: "Everything that we are we owe to Satan and his bootleg apples...
...Satan in the Suburbs" by Mr. Donaldson just misses the trick. With a novel situation, that of a chance meeting of a student and the Devil in a suburban trolley, the author wanders off in a pother of pseudo-Socratic dialectic, savoring of Shaw's "Man and Superman", and getting nowhere at all. And the fatal mark of the amateur is too often evident--that of needless circumlocution...
Twenty atrocious murders in a few weeks, ten more slashings have reduced the citizens to a state of mind in which respectable women were to be seen in Lutheran Churches screaming that Satan again walks the Earth, imploring Heaven's protection. For several weeks Dusseldorf schoolchildren have been toddling to kindergarten or walking fearfully to gymnasium (high school) accompanied by armed posses or riding in busses guarded by policemen with cocked Mauser pistols Entirely baffled, the Dusseldorf police recently sent for Berlin detectives whose methods-typical of the deepest dyed Austro-German psychiatric and psychoanalytical school-have been scaring...