Word: helle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans are on top of heaven. We Chinese are eighteen levels down in hell...
Circles of Hell. The camera first discovers Virginia Cunningham sitting on a bench in the sun. A disembodied voice asks her where she is. She does not know. The camera, following her inside a hulking grey building, discovers (as if through her bewildered eyes) the locked doors, the prison bars, the caged human figures. Casually it takes in such alarming details as a woman giggling to herself, another sitting on the floor. Later, it surveys the rows of beds in the dormitory at night, when Virginia first realizes where she is, while the soundtrack weaves a chilling pattern...
...picture follows Virginia's progress through the various wards, divided into descending degrees of misery, like the circles of hell. Throughout, it preserves the novel's sharply observed minor touches of asylum life-the nurses' way of speaking in front of inmates as if they weren't there (as some adults speak in front of children); the strange snobbery of the sick who look down on their sicker fellows; the large-looming small idiocies of institutional bureaucracy, such as the clean carpet in one ward which must not be stepped on (and the wonderful old woman...
...apiece) and experience so that each could get, in Anderson's words, "a better chance to say his independent say than we had as lone travelers in the pretty desperate profit jungle [around] Times Square." Of the cynics who gave the project six months, Rice demanded: "What the hell does a producer do that...
...Marshall Plan? "Should we not . . . come to the clear understanding that 'God's design' really means His plan; that is, His already come, already victorious, already founded Kingdom in all its majesty-our Lord Jesus Christ, who has already robbed sin and death, the devil and hell of their power? . . . Should we not see that 'God's design' therefore does not mean the existence of the church in the world, its task in relation to the world's disorder, its outward and inward activity as an instrument for the amelioration of human life...