Word: hell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hell of Punk Rock
Throughout my life I've listened to theologians attempt to picture the horrors of hell. The article "Anthems of the Blank Generation" [July 11], with those hideous pictures and the report of the nauseating behavior of the psychopathic participants, would answer the age-old question: What is hell really like...
...make up a week's attendance at the Metropolitan Museum. But they were the people who owned and ran Europe. Few of Rubens' paintings, except the altarpieces-the cherub-borne Madonnas rising into the infinite blue gauze of heaven, the squirming cascades of rosy, tormented flesh in hell, the marmoreal dead Christs and grandly virile Apostles-were meant to be seen by a plebeian eye. They hung on palace walls, firmly reminding the autocrats of Catholic Europe-Habsburg and Gonzaga, Stuart and Medici-that absolute power is absolutely delightful. Rubens was one of the greatest political artists...
...Uncle Sam pulled Hitler up on a tree limb and hanged him. The slogan was LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER." A woman asks, "Do you remember punching oleo up in a bag to make it look like butter?" Restaurants posted a sign: USE LITTLE SUGAR AND STIR LIKE HELL. WE DON'T MIND THE NOISE. Radio stations did not give weather forecasts, lest they help the enemy launch an attack...
...Graham writes. "If God had forgiven sin by a divine decree, without the atonement which involved the personal shame, agony, suffering and death of Christ, then we might assume that God was indifferent to sin. Consequently we would all go on sinning and the earth would become a living hell...