Word: helling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although an evening of Shaw can hardly be unrewarding, the Brattle Theatre Company's treatment of two Shavian pieces is an uneven one, and decidedly not up to the potentialities of that group. The selections, however, were happy ones. The scene of Don Juan in Hell from "Man and Superman" gives us Shaw, the serious and at once entertaining critic of society, presenting his provocative cosmology. "The Millionaires" is a farcical treatment of this same cosmology. In both, Shaw's gifts for coining paradoxes and his penetration are at their best...
...know that this is my cause, and I'm going to stand here till hell freezes over," he declared. He reaffirmed his belief that salvation is impossible outside the Catholic Church and that the purpose of our life on earth is to secure salvation and said that would continue to teach this at St. Benedict...
...Helsinki. Last week Ed landed on Hoosier soil again with 13 samples of vodka, and gave his wife Myrtle a big hug. "They say that Moscow is the heaven of the Soviet," said Ed. "Well, if that's heaven, all I can say is it's a hell of a heaven...
Last week the Portland school board suddenly sat up and took notice. For one thing, the current Ladies' Home Journal was carrying an exposé of such societies that quoted a former Portland boy named Chuck Swanman. On "Hell Night" he had been taken to a faraway golf course "where the cops can't hear you yell," forced to drink a mixture of a searing hot sauce compounded with pepper and garlic and ordered to smoke a handful of cigars, inhaling every puff. After he vomited, the "hackers" went to work, whacked him 50 times with an inch...
...Portland school board had other evidence. A mother wrote in to describe what had happened to her son on Hell Night. "He hardly looked human. He was covered with blood, molasses and sawdust, and was shaking with spasms ... He was covered with red marks across his back and buttocks, the latter broken in many places and swollen . . . His teeth chattered so that he could not talk...