Word: devil
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Three hundred years ago Dr. Velikovsky would have made a pretty effective set piece at some ecclesiastical auto-da-fé. Now, poor devil, he's going to be a popular success, just another of that long line of scientific bestsellers cashing in on the current obsession: Who am I? How did I get here? Whodunit? Where do we go from here...
...Kamegulov's request [who he was and what he requested, the Soviet editors tantalizingly fail to explain] I cannot fulfill. No time! Besides, what the devil, what kind of critic would I be! That's all. I firmly shake your hand and wish you good health. Thanks for your greeting.-J. Stalin...
...authority, but he came to believe that only a Socialist government could destroy capitalism and pave the way for a genuine free society, which was just about where Karl Marx had stood. When his espousal of Socialism brought him the title of "the Red Professor," Laski retorted: "The devil [i.e., Laski] is not as red as he is painted. His evil-minded Socialism is nothing more than the logical development of Jeffersonian democracy in the 20th Century...
...deathbed scene, a nurse gratuitously draws a window shade so that a shadow can fall over his face. Nor do the picture's hand-me-down roles make for good performances. France's Actress Prelle (formerly Presle), whose delicate playing was a major asset to Devil in the Flesh, has been transformed by more than a change of spelling. She is unimpressive in a role that makes her lift a wan voice in three interminable French songs. In a portrayal that is all mannerism and no meat, Actor Garfield summons up neither the appeal of a hero...
Some squares, such as those marked "Courtesy" or "Communion," offer a new spin of the wheel or an advance of several notches. Others impose severe penalties. At square 17 the player loses a turn and must go back to number 10 for "yielding to the Devil's temptation." The same punishment is demanded for reading the red-splashed "evil press" (number 31). The worst penalty of all is attached to the last square-number 49-which sends the young "pilgrim" all the way back to number 5, the square marked "Religious Instruction." On square 49 is a picture...