Word: helling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rotating majestically"-what an apt description of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune [Dec. 8]. You can always read in John Cowles's paper about what's going on in Ceylon or Java, but who the hell ever knows what's going on in Minneapolis...
...mass meeting, he exhorted 3,000 wildly cheering fans: "Go to your prisons in your millions, singing Hallelujah." "Kwaca!" he cried to indicate the "dawn" of freedom. "Ufulu!" he roared, his face twitching, and the crowd roared back, "Ufulu! Ufulu! [freedom]." "My brothers and sisters in the hell of Southern Rhodesia," he cried, "I am prepared for anything. Even my ghost, my ashes will fight federation. Are you with me?" When the cries of "yes, yes" died down, Banda continued. The British, he said, wanted federation. "Why? So we can be herded into reserves like animals in our own country...
...helped free his individual genius: he took cubism out of doors, to church and to the beach, using it to animate a vista with the intricate counterpoint of a Bach fugue. Regatta, which seems as much like the gates of paradise as Pink Sky is like the gates of hell, is a sparkling example...
...dominion. As the story begins, everybody in town crowds into the tiny church to hear the priest appoint the leading parts in a Passion play,* to be presented on the following Easter. The choices are almost too shrewd. Mary Magdalen is the village whore. Judas is a well-known hell raiser and general bad lot. St. Peter is the village postman. St. John is the gentle, warmhearted son of the richest man in town. Christ is a shepherd, a stammering and shy man, pure and natural in character but illiterate and naive...
...said. "But all real advances in knowledge come from people who are doing what they like to do. We all know the effect on children of compulsory spinach and compulsory rhubarb; it's the same with compulsory learning. They say, 'It's spinach and to hell with...