Word: satanizing
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...thing, there is an old-fashioned witches' tale in a modern cauldron. At the start of Rosemary's Baby, Author Ira Levin (who wrote the stage version of No Time for Sergeants and the mystery novel A Kiss Before Dying), sets the tone with the question "Is Satan dead?" He then proceeds to create suspense by operating on the theory that a little Catholic guilt can go a long...
...were living men. His poems call the Puritan spirit of New England to sharp account and make his ancestral portraits step from their frames and answer to Lowell. Thus his dialogue becomes an argument about his own nature, in terms of the Calvinist obsessions with sin, damnation, God and Satan. Lowell does not possess his ancestors; they possess...
...novel describes how Satan ("the master") comes to Moscow in the 1930s to cast a spell on the inhabitants. The characters, all lacking orthodox Marxian solemnity, range from a talking cat to a chambermaid who flits about her employer's flat in fluttering nudity. One of its most interesting scenes is a re-enactment of Christ's encounter with...
...Granted that Luther was too often dismissed as a neurotic misfit. Too frequently was he portrayed as the vice-regent of Satan who slyly wormed his way into the priesthood. But to claim that "Luther's conviction that all men stand equally naked before God constitutes the theo logical substratum justifying liberal democracy" is poppycock. Listen to a sample of Luther's democracy: "The princes of this world are gods, the common people are Satan, through whom God sometimes does what at other times he does directly through Satan, i.e., makes rebellion as a punishment for the people...
...sister and slays her brother-in-law. He also has his eye on the neighboring castle of Vrath and gets it as well, by trickery rather than force of arms. By this time, not only the peasants are muttering that Rakóssy must have a pact with Satan. But Rakóssy is directly in the route of the Turkish invasion, and in two splendid battle pieces, his own castle and Vrath are stormed by the Turks. As sole survivor, Rakóssy hunts down and kills a final Magyar enemy and then rides mindlessly to his own death...