Word: helling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...secret meetings with both sides, proposed a commission to arbitrate rules on a company-by-company or plant-by-plant basis. McDonald talked as if he would buy the suggestion-if the union had a vote on the commission. But management rejected the suggestion and thereby angered Administration officials. "Hell," snapped one, "they're now trying to get back from labor a good deal of what they themselves have given away over the last 15 years...
...poet of so personal a vision was almost certain to be apolitical, but Pasternak was never so swathed in poetic contemplation as not to recognize the hell around him. If his images for it are oblique, they are nonetheless powerful...
...Yeah, but I can't see what the hell is going...
...hell would I know...
Reigning spirit of the museum, as of the Northern Renaissance, is Pieter Brueghel the Elder, represented by two paintings: Mad Margaret and Flemish Proverbs. The first represents a giant housewife on what appears to be a militant invasion of hell. It has been widely reproduced. The second-Flemish Proverbs-may well be Brueghel's earliest extant painting, consists of twelve separate wooden "platters" framed as a unit. (One is reproduced life-size opposite, nine of the rest overleaf.) Pieter Brueghel the Younger framed the platters, but only the elder Brueghel could have done the actual painting. Only his hand...