Word: satanizing
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...disappointments of the year was John Hersey's The Marmot Drive, the story of a Connecticut woodchuck hunt, full of murky meanings and pseudo-archaic Yankee lingo. One of the real surprises of the year was the belated bow in fiction of aged (81) Philosopher Bertrand Russell. His Satan in the Suburbs consisted of five stories whose weird plots and good-natured skepticism made for pretty good...
...green-eyed courtesan of "supernatural beauty." Thenceforth, his life takes on a Jekyll-and-Hyde cast: by day he is a humble village priest, by night "the Lord Romuald," lover of Clarimonde, living in an Italian palace amid such pomp and splendor that "I do not believe that since Satan fell from heaven, any creature was ever prouder or more insolent." Clarimonde, however, has the old ghost-story habit of sucking the blood from her lover's arm so as to keep herself "alive." This allows the distressed hero to come right out with an old-fashioned moral...
...Satan in the Suburbs, by Bertrand Russell. Sardonic stories by an aging philosopher turned fictioneer (TIME, July...
...Satan in the Suburbs, by Bertrand Russell. Sardonic stories by an aging philosopher turned fictioneer (TIME, July...
...Satan in the Suburbs, by Bertrand Russell. Five sardonic stories by a philosopher turned fictioneer (TiME, July...