Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time as they would have at Hello, Dolly, but a pretty good time. And as you keep infusing that into the taste of people you are doing what we used to talk about, which is educating your public. Now that's an enormous subject, but it was a hell of a lot more difficult to do three years ago than it is today, and that's because there are young people going to the theater. And there are middle-aged people who only went to off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway for a long, long time because there was nothing...
...assembling responsive young boys; his heart is back in London, where trendy liberals once puffed him up from criminal to Third World celebrity. Roche's English mistress is a bored adventuress who likes to taunt men. This trio forms, as things turn out, a menage made in hell...
...drastic statement--especially to my brothers, teachers, old friends, faithful dog and so on. But look at the evidence: One of my earliest memories is of asking my mother to explain the E.B. White/Carl Rose cartoon: "It's broccoli, dear." "I say it's spinach and I say the hell with it." (That caption, by the way, is now in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.) Other memories: we are all working in the garden. Someone holds up a piece of our all-too-tenacious ivy and cries "Watch out Fred, here it comes again!" My dog announces his wish...
...corps' 2nd Division in the bloody conquest of Tarawa in 1943 against suicidal Japanese resistance, coming ashore under fire at the height of the fighting because "it was my job to be on the beach. The men of my division had been through hell and they were entitled to the presence of their commanding officer...
...than the superficial has changed. Women, though certainly not accepted completely at Yale and Harvard, two of the bastions of male chauvinism, are not singing the song that Smith and Vassar women made their craze in the 1920s: "Was I drunk? Was he handsome? Did my mummy give me hell...