Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many women trained?and disillusioned?in the radical movements of the '60s, NOW seemed slightly middleaged, middle-class and tame. They formed protest groups in their own, often bizarre styles. Among them are BITCH (for nothing). WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell), Bread and Roses (long a feminist slogan, suggesting that women wanted not only flowers but bread?wages?as well), Redstockings, the Radical Mothers, and Media Women. Often their tactics differ from more conservative groups like NOW, FEW (Federally Employed Women) and Women Inc. of San Francisco. The latter, while it supports the call for equality, opposes...
Heaven and Hell. As for judgment -to Eliot, alas, that mostly means deciding whether to take a last fling at government service. After pages and pages of squinting at the traps behind the enticements, Eliot turns down the offer to be a minister of state. For readers who know their prudent, prudent Eliot, the suspense is less than killing...
...contemporary scene. Young Charles goes to Cambridge and gets involved in politics, 1960s radical style. He also has an affair with his cousin's estranged wife, a girl as frustrating as she is attractive, perhaps as close as Snow comes to touching on his promised heaven and hell...
Stacked up against the chatter about "death, judgment, heaven and hell," Last Things unfairly seems a disappointment, more of the same old mumble-and-mud-dle-through. From the very beginning, however, Snow has always had a positive genius for making the wrong promises. He presented himself as a bridge builder between "two cultures," though readers can get more science from Ray Bradbury than from Snow. And just how would one build a bridge from 20th century science to the 19th century novel?-which, after all, is what Snow has been writing...
Snow may yearn to be apocalyptic, like everybody else. But he really has very little to do with heaven and hell. Limbo is his territory, the area of half-victories and temporary defeats...