Word: satanism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Christ was tempted by Satan in the wilderness of Judah, so the Bible says, and James Pike was determined to go there too-"to meditate," as his wife wistfully recalled later, "and get a firsthand feeling of it." For the onetime Episcopal Bishop of California, it was just one more unusual adventure in a remarkably strange career (see following story). As always, he was anxious to get on with it. No matter that it was 1 o'clock on a hot Monday afternoon, hardly the time to set out into the blistering, arid desert. James Pike...
Fundamentalist Character In Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Richard Hofstadter once defined the fundamentalist mind as "essentially Manichean; it looks upon the world as an arena for conflict between absolute good and absolute evil, and accordingly it scorns compromises (who would compromise with Satan?) and can tolerate no ambiguities." Wayne's fundamentalist character was not against the American grain...
...Governor Walter J. Hickel to succeed Stewart L. Udall as Secretary of the Interior - a job that Udall had performed with such ecological sensitivity that many thought he should be called Secretary of the Environment. At first glance, Hickel was so depressingly different that some reacted as if Satan had been promoted to guard St. Peter's gate...
...wrote hundreds of pages of grotesque "confessions": the devil visited her several times a day; he had walked beside her, his black fur glistening, at Holy Communion and often made love to her; he had promised her she could have ten sexually diverse husbands and rule the world with Satan. After months of piecemeal punishment, Bernadette's Calvary finally came on May 14, 1966. During a four-hour exorcism session, interrupted only for rest and prayer, the couple and four other men beat and tormented the girl with walking sticks, a riding crop and a rubber truncheon...
ROSEMARY'S BABY. Satan is alive and living at the Bramford, a haunted apartment house in Manhattan, where an ancient witch (Ruth Gordon) troubles a pregnant wife (Mia Farrow); both ladies are superb, thanks to the devilishly deft direction of Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water, Repulsion), who has a nifty horror hangup...