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For example, this is her interpretation of one of Barbey's religious monsters (the seductor and rapist of an innocent country girl in A Nameless Story ): The name Riculf seems to be a clever composite of two French words: rire, meaning to laugh, comes directly from the Latin rictus meaning a mocking sneering laughter; and culer meaning to back away or go astray.
A history of this sort of folly might start with some of the failed schemes of the New Deal economists before describing the way that the "whiz kids" led LBJ astray on both the Vietnam War and the war on poverty.
Yet ABC, like all the networks, is quick to pounce when the lifestyles of the rich and famous, including politicians, go astray.
His persona was just such a type: mocking God, leading others astray, scornfully getting away. (p. 219.)
' ") Maybe Wolf was led astray by Press' tendentious summary of Magnet's views.