Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...killing time. Hinds County. WPA farm-to-market road worker. Lowndes County. Saturday off Jackson. With a dog. Madison County. With a baby. Hinds County. With a chum. Madison County. Home. Claiborne County. Home. Pearl River. Home. Jackson. A slave's apron showing souls in progress to Heaven or Hell. Yalobusha County. Ida M'Toy, retired midwife. Jackson...
Quite a few Americans these days seem inclined to tell the rest of the world to go to hell. It is not isolationism in the old sense, but rather a turning inward to urgent domestic concerns, a somewhat naive disillusionment over the fact that America is neither omnipotent nor universally loved, and a confusion about just what the U.S. role in the world henceforth should be. On Capitol Hill, Administration operatives were still fighting last week to revive the foreign aid bill, which had been killed by the Senate. They achieved partial success when Congress agreed to extend aid until...
Kennedy has been profoundly affected by Chappaquiddick. Some who know him believe that he is a wiser leader because of it. California Democratic Leader Jess Unruh declares: "That terrible incident was an ordeal that made a hell of a better man out of Ted. Everything had been so easy for him. He was almost insufferable in 1969 when he won the job as Senate whip . . . Then came Chappaquiddick and he lost his whip job, too. Those experiences humbled him. That's on the private side. On the public side there is no doubt it has cost him votes." Mike Feldman...
Jetting to Hell. When Paganini died in 1840, many of these compositions -including the third violin concerto -were tucked away in a bank vault in Milan under the care of the violinist's heirs. Other violinists have been trying to get at them ever since. By last year, all the concertos except the third had been released. It was still held by the Paganini family. Last Christmas, Philips Records, aided by Violinist Henryk Szeryng, finally obtained it after ten years of delicate negotiations...
Szeryng brings it all off with dash and finesse, but without quite removing the suspicion that there must have seemed more to it when Paganini played it. "The work," he says, "makes me feel like I'm jetting from heaven to hell at incredible speed." It must be reported, however, that when he performed it in public recently at London's Royal Festival Hall, the devil did not appear beside...