Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inventing a new meaning for revolution, a new state of mind based on an enlarged understanding of what freedom means. We're in debt now-$600 at least for all the things we broke-and it may sound naive and crazy, but we're proud as hell of having this debt to pay. If we could get $1,000 together, we could rent a garage next year and really have a happening that could say things. A real happening without all these restrictions...
...middle-aged first-nighter remarked, tugging uncomfortably at his black tie: "I wished to hell I understood a little more about opera. I'd like to tell my grandkids that I went to something like this." But the one aspect of the opera that most impressed the audiences was that it actually happened right there-in that thoroughly civilized jumping-off-place, Kansas City...
...find three other janitors engaged in a futile attempt to fumigate the phone booth. "We cleaned it for three hours, but the smell's still there," Roberts said "I suggested in my report to Buildings and Grounds that the phone booth be removed. I wish to hell they's flooded the cellar instead," he concluded rather bitterly...
Residents of the area have vocifer ously opposed the project since its inception, and last winter leaders of the anti-renewal war vowed that they would resist eviction bodily. Anti-renewal signs reading "To Hell with Urban Renewal" and "The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Homeless" are posted on many of the homes...
...scenes of German guilt. They are much in demand among guilt-ridden Germans, and Amsel employs a large force of workers to build their elaborate machinery and package them in an abandoned potash mine. In a grotesque parody of that old literary device, the descent into hell, Amsel leads Matern and his black dog through his guilt factory. The black dog, who appears to embody both the bestial and the sturdily virtuous elements of the German nature, remains in Amsel's underworld as a Cerberus. But Matern is allowed to return to the surface and soap himself clean...