Word: gehenna
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...Carnesale may not be the best person for this job. First, he bears an uncanny resemblance to Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Gehenna). On a more serious note, given his backgrounds as academic and administrator, Carnesale might not be as in touch with undergraduates as a university president should...
...year's worth of surplus wheat. The harvest of the new wheat crop is almost finished, and it is a whopper: 2.2 billion bu. Providence seems to be pushing us toward some rendezvous with disaster. The Corn Belt is like John Bunyan's idyllic Beulah -- or a dark Gehenna. Corn is king in the U.S., a $25 billion business that occupies one-quarter of the nation's cropland. This year's crop will be 8.3 billion bu., the second highest in history. In the corn country, half of a farmer's income is from Government payments for his unneeded grain...
...fact that nothing succeeds like failure, will soon realize that Charley Fortnum is one of the author's mysteriously blessed innocents. Plarr, a cool diagnostician and a rational man compulsively armed against the risks of love, just as clearly is Greene's familiar man in Gehenna. Convenient labels, though, do not destroy the extraordinary suspense and subtlety of the book...
...Masoch, Oh, Mr. Masoch, It's such bliss to see the audiences cringe When submerged by Tennessee In his great Gehenna Sea, Or genétically ravaged inge by inge...
...Gehenna is a short, impressive interior monologue that dallies with madness, and The Dark City is a skillfully done story of a happy father who, without abandoning his happiness, has a moment's clear vision of evil. Two other stories - The Last Visit, concerned with adultery, and Mr. Arcularis, which chillingly deals with the no man's land between life and death - are bravely and successfully ended in the O. Henry manner. These are the author's best, and they are a pleasure to read; few literary telescopes show the dark side of the moon as vividly...