Word: godforsaken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...super bitchery"). They hated each other for their infidelities: "It seems extraordinary to me now that we did not kill each other outright; we certainly got dangerously near to it." But it was only with Dylan dead and buried in his Welsh village of Laugharne ("this Godforsaken, Dylan-shared, vanishing dip in the hills") that Caitlin was possessed by the enormity of her loss, and wanted "to ferret down to that long locked cold box, and burst it apart . . . to mangle him with my strong bones, mingle, mutilate the two of us together, till the dead and the living would...
...sudsy incidents, characters and lines ("You'd be attractive anywhere, but in this Godforsaken jungle, you're irresistible!"), The Letter was unusual adult entertainment. By letting the heroine get by with both murder and adultery, it did what the movies, according to the code, cannot do. NBC censors did pressure Wyler to "change a few 'hells' and 'My Gods'." The line, "A woman he had relations with," became "A woman with whom he had a relation." But Wyler refused to tamper with key bits, viz., "He tried to rape me so I shot...
...tavern near West Point in the 1820s and was, according to Cadet Edgar Allan Poe, the "only soul in the entire Godforsaken place." Mellowed by Havens' hot ale flips, cadets used to sing (to the tune of The Wearing of the Green) their unofficial West Point song: Come fill your glasses, fellows, and stand up in a row, To singing sentimentally we're going for to go; In the army there's sobriety, promotion's very slow, So we'll sing our reminiscences of Benny Havens...
Appleton, Wisc.--Despite its location in the midst of Wisconsin farmland Lawrence College is definitely not Godforsaken. Rather, it is His adversary who seems to have passed the college by, for with stringent rules against alcohol and automobiles, and a required course in religion, Lawrence is, in the words of one professor, "a hotbed of morality...
Appleton, Wisc.--Despite its location in the midst of Wisconsin farmland Lawrence College is definitely not Godforsaken. Rather, it is His adversary who seems to have passed the college by, for with stringent rules against alcohol and automobiles, and a required course in religion, Lawrence is, in the words of one professor, "a bothed of morality...