Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scared stiff to hear that the youngsters are going to vote in the U.S. next time [Aug. 23]. What the hell do these kids know about life...
...description of society's dilemma, but Skinner's solution seems equally frightening. To Theologian Rubenstein, Beyond Freedom and Dignity is an important but "terrifying" book. Skinner's "utopian projection," he says, "is less likely to be a blueprint for the Golden Age than for the theory and practice of hell...
...father and only once by his mother?when she washed out his mouth with soap for using a "bad word." Nevertheless, young Skinner was "taught to fear God, the police and what people will think," and his Grandmother Skinner "made sure that I understood the concept of hell by showing me the glowing bed of coals in the parlor stove." To deter him from a life of crime, Skinner's father conducted him through the county jail and on a summer vacation took him to a lecture with colored slides that depicted life in Sing Sing...
...Coast and Gulf of Mexico counterpart of Bridges' I.L.W.U., expire Sept. 30. Union negotiators are demanding a guaranteed annual wage-an innovation in the seasonal shipping business that employers are hardly eager to grant. Nevertheless, says I.L.A. Boss Thomas W. Gleason, his members are prepared to wait "until hell freezes over...
Undeniably, the traditional translation by Constance Garnett (done in 1916) had a quality of oak paneling and stained-glass windows (not to say cobwebs), and Professor MacAndrew's new version is brisk and straightforward. A typical Garnett phrase like "bother the fellow" has become "the hell with him." And those elaborate patronymics have disappeared, so that Tatyana Pavlovna is now simply Mrs. Prutkov. But in his effort to be up-to-date, MacAndrew also afflicts us with such colloquialisms as "know-how" and "twerp." Mrs. Garnett's simple statement, "Don't be angry, Prince...