Word: satanizing
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...outdoor setting added much to the atmosphere of the play. William D. Roberts has designed an awesome set of towering (fifteen feet) platforms and Gothic arches. The stage is sombre, but only to act as background for the lush costumes and lighting. Brilliant greens highlight Satan--strange amber tones play over the Witches' revels where nudes and hags mingle in what might have been better dances. Unfortunately they suffered from lack of definitive choreography and professional performance. Satan would not tolerate such slip-shod work on the part of his disciples...
...offer radio listeners and TViewers a number of many-splendored things in return. Faith Healer Leroy Kopp offers "instantaneous and gradual healing" over Los Angeles' KGER. Brother Aubrey Lee asks ailing listeners to place their hands on their radio sets while he intones: "We rebuke that vile disease. Satan, take your vile disease from that body. God bless everyone in the household, including old grandma or granddad with that old rheumatism." Inducements offered by others: a plastic cross that glows in the dark ("the glow of God's presence") and, for a certain sum, of course, "a genuine...
...Negro people. Three years ago these views were completely transformed. I became convinced that God makes no distinctions among people whatever their race and that segregation is exclusively by God in the final judgment ... I am now wondering whether I am interpreting the Scriptures like Christ or like Satan...
...Capitol steps did not become entirely clear from the testimony at the recent Hughes perjury trial in New York City. But the trial revealed that responsible and otherwise rational men were willing to attribute both powers and motives to the junior senator from Wisconsin that might make Satan himself a little envious. Nor was the phobia confined to the self-appointed guardians of the liberal tradition. At the height of McCarthy's influence in 1954, articulate members of both parties seemed convinced that the Republic had not been in greater danger since the colors came down at Fort Sumter...
Guardian angels, limbs of Satan, magicians and apparitions weave in and out of the story disguised as youths, cats, snakes, paper cutouts. Day follows day in perpetual warmth-winter never comes in Reid's books-and Tom's pursuit of his dreams is deftly mixed with his everyday pursuit of such things as candy and pocket money...