Word: satanity
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...Glory be to God!" cried Preacher Poole into his microphone. "Pray for Sam Bell. Save Sam Bell. The Devil can only go so far. There'll be no jukeboxes in heaven." The faithful groaned and flung themselves to their knees; their own amplifiers rushed to meet Satan over Saunders Street with a full-throated Leaning on the Everlasting Arms...
Last week he was nestled in the respectable but unusual surroundings of Manhattan's Little Club, a dim East Side spot with some Broadway overtones, for a series of Sunday-midnight concerts. Looking a little like a pudgy, scholarly Satan, Harpsichordist Valenti threaded his way among the tables, mounted the platform and affectionately patted the maple-colored instrument. Then he launched into pieces by such 18th century composers as Rameau, Domenico, Scarlatti and Bach. The music was brief, gracefully decorated with trills and curlicues, and its precise pinpoints of sound and muffled thunder filled the small room better than...
Faust stands in contrast to the vast impersonal forces of Nature, the earthy pleasures of the Folk, and Satan's cynical malice. Except for a brief moment of enchanted sleep, the Devil offers him only a brutal bird's eye view of earth and its blasphemies: armies on the march, revelers bloated with wine, and a drunken Amen on the death of a rat. For his great affaire de coeur, Faust must sneak behind a curtain while Marguerite prepares for bed, then pop into sight only when magic has rendered her more than willing. The disillusion culminates as neighbors assemble...
...Will Satan be saved? The great 3rd century theologian Origen seems to have thought so, and some of the early church writers agreed with him. But Christian theology crystallized around the opposite view: the Devil is everlastingly damned to an everlasting Hell, and Dante put it in a famous nutshell with the inscription over the gate to his Inferno-Abandon hope, all ye who enter here...
...Rome last week the question of Satan's salvation was once again warming theological tempers. Author-Philosopher Giovanni Papini, whose Life of Christ (1921) made him famous and who was converted to Roman Catholicism while writing it, made the Devil the subject of his latest (and 40th) book, Il Diavolo. And he decided that there was hope...