Word: satanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cleverest wile of Satan is to convince us that he does not exist...
...Over the centuries, millions of tiny Anglicans preparing for Confirmation have lisped and stammered out the awesome answer that begins: "I would renounce the Devil and all his works." A year ago, in a proposed revision of the catechism, the Anglican Archbishops' Commission struck out all mention of Satan. Young believers, the draft suggested, should merely "renounce all that is wrong and fight against evil...
...Garden State Stakes, the world's richest horse race, Willie Shoemaker deftly steered Crimson Satan from dead last to a 2½-length victory, making the two-year-old colt a top contender for 1962's classic races...
...funny and tragic, paradoxically baffling and plausible, gifted with the poet's touch of universality, and turned out in colloquial dialogue that is breathtakingly cadenced and exact. It has been interpreted as everything from an allegory of the cold war to a modern view of Christ, man, and Satan, but unlike so much of the so-called avant-garde, it is thoroughly alive on Level One: the stage...
...writing. It is a world in which God and the devil are constantly in contention, in which imps, cabalistic mysteries and ancient Talmudic heresies are as much a part of the passing show as a quarrel in the market place. The best of these eleven stories tells how Satan ruins the nicest girl in town. Satan contrives that Lise should marry a brilliant, homely scholar who is a secret disciple of Sabbatai Zevi, the False Messiah who taught that the world must become wholly corrupt before it could be made pure. Lise is corrupted by her husband's obscene...