Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole history of the years of decolonization since 1945 has shown that however big the army you deploy, you cannot win against a hostile population and terrain?which in Panama means taking on a population of 2 million and 50 miles of jungle plus 1,000 miles of semitropical hell." Adds a senior British diplomat: "A U.S. strategy of holding on to the Canal Zone by force would be tantamount to following a strategy devised in Moscow...
...sympathetic and tolerant attitude toward the kind of violent outbreak that occurred during the blackout. Along with Dante, I am inclined to believe that people who sympathize with the wrong aspects of a problem, even with the best intentions, have earned extraordinary punishment in a specialized corner of hell...
...area's longstanding racial and political ferment is far from over. Even if authorities contain the black-white confrontation through the summer, the Skokie problem promises to reappear. Vows Nazi Collin: "Come hell or high water, Supreme Court or no Supreme Court, arrest or no arrest, violence or no violence, we will go into Skokie before the end of the year." While Collin's timing may be overly optimistic, his reading on the First Amendment may well be on target. Says one federal judge: "One day the Nazis are going to march in Skokie, as is their right...
...qualities Shaw most prized, he also possessed - moral passion and individual integrity. It is not surprising that he portrays hell in this play as a kind of sumptuous nightclub of gourmandizing delights and heaven as a spartan gymnasium of progressive ar dor. Shaw speaks the language of militant betterment, and it is at the heart of Man and Superman...
...play is often cut by one act, at least, and the two-hour Don Juan in Hell segment is sometimes performed alone in concert reading. This full-length production is gloriously fortunate in having in the central role of Tanner an actor who is the pluperfect master of the Shavian rhetoric. At the risk of offending his admirable colleagues in the cast, one must say that it is extremely doubtful if so prodigious an undertaking could have succeeded without an actor of Ian Richardson's scope and power. His voice is like the trumpet of the Lord...