Word: satanity
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...frantically trying to determine if Squeaky had acted in a plot with other members of the Manson family. They now number about 60 men and women, mostly in their mid-20s, who are living on the loose, mainly in California, and who are still convinced that the sly and Satan-eyed Manson is the second Christ. Searching for evidence, investigators carefully went through the attic apartment in downtown Sacramento that Squeaky had occupied with Sandra Good, 31, another Manson cultist. In recent months, the two women had been urging members of the Manson family not to give up the faith...
...does Peter Fonda get himself into these things? He and his buddy Warren Gates-reunited again after Fonda's own The Hired Hand (1971) -appear as vacationers run afoul of witchcraft out in the Texas boonies. Members of a cult that plays footsie with Satan dress up in hooded sheets and build a bonfire near a gnarled old tree. Then they get right down to business and sacrifice a victim. This gives the boys across the ravine-Fonda and Gates-a mighty eyeful and a good scare. They climb back aboard their $36,000 motor home and hightail...
...Francisco State University, "from its pages there rise images so dreamlike and yet so imperative that we experience them as ancient allegories. Everywhere one looks, there flicker the shadows of primordial struggles; the perpetual tension between the dark and the light; the wrestling match between Christ and Satan; and finally, the complex allegories of sex: sex in all its unimaginable innocence, or sex reeking with the full perfume of the swamp. And all these urgencies are seen or sensed through a hot wash of blood which, deny it though we will, fascinates us nearly to the point of shame...
...After such tales come bleaker stories and pleas for spiritual help from listeners who have written letters or who call into a busy bank of phones. "We lift before you the prayer requests in the name of Jesus," intones the M.C., raising aloft a batch of letters. "We rebuke Satan in the name of Jesus...
...more than two decades; in Oxford. One of the most significant revisions of Holy Writ in this century, the N.E.B. is marked by lucid and often majestic prose that eliminates archaisms such as "thee" and "thou" unless characters are addressing the Deity. One exception: in the prologue to Job, Satan casually greets God with the familiar "you." Explained Translator Driver: "Satan is the Devil, and is allowed to be bumptious...