Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month, President Nixon was furious at Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi because during her visit to Washington in November, she gave no indication that India intended to go to war with Pakistan. The Anderson papers illustrate the intensity of Nixon's anger at New Delhi: "I am getting hell every half-hour from the President that we are not being tough enough on India," Kissinger told the meeting on Dec. 3. "He has just called me again. He does not believe we are carrying out his wishes. He wants to tilt in favor of Pakistan. He feels everything...
...determiner of life rather than a victim," says the Hub Theatre Company. In Sartre's No Exit, the characters have already gone beyond the point where they can make such a choice; they are in a place where there is no rest, no dreaming, no death; they are in hell...
...instead create a symbiosis of torture; Inez wants Estelle, and Estelle wants Garcin, Garcin only wants to be left alone. They chase each other endlessly until they realize that their desires will not meet, that there is no chance of resolution. There can be no illusions in hell; they cannot content themselves with the hope that their desires will someday be fulfilled. They must live only with themselves; they must endure...
What happens in the Hub production is that the three condemned play isolated from each other. Although the characters must meet their fates on their own, Sartre's play requires a community of desperation: Yes, they are in hell, yes, they are in hell forever, yes, they are in hell forever together. When Garcin says at the end, "Well, let's get on with it..."it should be clear to the audience that this is the only choice they have, that there is nothing else they can do. Instead, it sounds like an invitation to the cast-audience discussion afterwards...
...Russians did that to us, we'd go to war." And it was top secret, so secret that I, as science advisor, had a hard fight to learn about it. And after I finally had a briefing on it, I asked a colleague, "Who the hell are they keeping it from? The Russians know about it." And we concluded it was being kept from the American people so they would not know what was being done in their name. The Pentagon Papers show that there are many things of this kind. Not only should people who are government consultants...