Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lesser offenses, Denaburg says, "They have a hell of a lot of whiskey houses operating in niggertown. It doesn't really hurt society for Negroes to sit in a house and drink whiskey and have skin games. They're not bothering anyone else besides themselves...
...reaches 75. He made a pilgrimage to the castle of Fu-mone, near Rome, where Celestine V lived upon quitting the papacy in 1294 -an exemplar of a Pope who retired. Dante condemned Celestine's abdication as an act of cowardice and relegated him to the antechamber of hell. Paul chicled Dante and enigmatically went on to praise Celestine, both for accepting the papacy against his will and for stepping down when he realized that he was not equal to the task...
...Incognito (TIME, Jan. 1, 1965), he combined these assets to excoriate the abuses of power in police-state Rumania, providing in the biography of his hero a large-scale map of all the circles of Iron Curtain hell. In this nov el, he attacks the abuses of affluence in the West. The book is less successful than Incognito, partly because Dumitriu's allegiances are not involved and he thus writes as a bemused outsider, and partly because his experience with Westerners seems limited to the grand and the grotesque...
...will be able to keep stories from being played out of proportion to what they are worth. After all, his only direct competition will come from the Post, with its predictable liberal approach to any issue. The Post, says Conniff, should serve "to keep us from getting stuffy. But hell, last week the Post had two-TWO-editorials on U Thant. Tell me, is U Thant what people are talking about over their cocktails...
...plot is also S.O.P. When Company C charges into a town called Valerno, the Italian commander bellows: "Do you surrender?" The U.S. captain snarls: "Hell, no. Do you surrender?" The Italian answers amiably: "Of course." Director Blake Edwards, having attained the humoristic high point of his picture, should have surrendered too. Instead, he stages the usual Bacchic brawl that looks like the crowd scene from the Palermo production of La Bohème. After the Germans recapture the village, he contrives to involve the captain, giggling and wriggling under ribbons and rouge, in some transvestite titillations that are altogether...