Word: devil
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...understand why the Negroes of Watts rebelled 'Then shy do we need a devil theory to explain the rebellion of the South Vietnamese.' Can we understand the oppression in Mississippi, or the anguish that our Northern ghettoes makes epidemic? Then why can't we see that the proper human stuggle is not with communism or revolutionaries, but with the social desperation that drives good men to violence, both here and abroad?" Carl Oglesby, former president of SDS. March on Washington to End the War in Vietnam, November...
This Balthazar (symbolically named for one of the Magi) is an ambiguous wise man. He has been a phony evangelist who muleted gullible believers, a sly fox in the vineyards of the Lord. Precisely because he has dabbled in the devil's art, he can cite Scripture, incandescently, to cast out the devils who possess Shelley...
...Allbritton could be a devil for its unions...
...evil, a Manichaean conflict that recognized no middle ground and could end only with total victory. Deterrence ran up against liberal ideology and its emotional evocation of peace in the abstract; coexistence grated on the liturgical anti-Communism of the right, for there could be no compromise with the devil...
Poof! A puff of smoke and a little and devil on your right shoulder whispers in you ear, "Whaddaya doing, putz. You're two years past your sexual prime and slipping fast; you gonna pass this up, sucker...