Word: devil
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...presume it is permissible for an original subscriber of your magazine to write a letter to you, about 27 years after. Several times I have been tempted, but I have always put the devil behind me. But age and your fine cover story on Lieut. General Curtis Emerson LeMay . . . have "done...
Such a man defies biography. The writer of it should have both the religious passion to comprehend how a man who sometimes seemed almost a devil could also be almost a saint; and the theological dispassion to talk, without raising his voice, about the most controversial Christian of modern times. Biographer Bainton has plenty of dispassion, and also a handsome way of writing. His Luther biography is easily the most readable in English; if it fails to understand all the Martin Luthers and to reconcile them in one man, that was more than Luther could do, either...
...monk's cowl did not keep out the demon of despair, says Biographer Bainton, and the despair was finally defined: Luther had begun to doubt the goodness of God. "I wished I had never been created. Love God? I hated Him!" The Devil visited Luther by night, and the monk-priest never doubted that he was real. In the dark night of his own soul, Luther found his own convictions: the whole nature of man is corrupt; man must be born again to be saved...
...second anniversary of her third-story leap to freedom, onetime Soviet Schoolteacher Oksana Kasenkina announced that she was writing a novel, to be called The Red Devil. "Of course, the Red Devil is Stalin. Who else...
...were getting "restless and worried," De Chirico trumpeted, "because of my activities to create a renaissance in painting that will restore art to its true masterfulness and beauty . . . With great strides the day is coming when this horrible bestiality called modern art ... will give up its soul to the devil...