Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profession, housewifery may be noble as hell, but as a day to day occurrence, it is rather vapid. Like death and taxes, it should largely be regarded as regrettable and ignored when possible. Simpering over boiled pudding is neither professional nor noble...
...peaceful coexistence. The President also let it be known that he had told Dobrynin that the U.S. would maintain its strength, even while trying to be considerate of the views of others. He reminded the Russian ambassador that it is "one thing to tell a man to go to hell, and another thing to make...
...sees himself differently. "I consider myself a human engineer," he says. "I've done a lot of things in my life, and I have had a broader chance to study people than anyone I know. I've lived in every kind of place, from Beverly Hills to Hell's Kitchen. And I've worked in speakeasies and in big corporations and everything in between-mines and garages...
...Days dates back to 1909. By the early 1930s, the races were often rigged, and they attracted the booted whores and gaudy gangsters who gave Berlin its cynical, sinful aura. Left-wing Playwright Georg Kaiser described the Sportpalast scene in those days: "Inhibition has gone to hell. Cutaways shake. Shirts tear. Buttons pop in all directions. Differences flow away. Nakedness where there used to be disguise: passion. It's worth it-this brings profits...
...breeds remorse and despair; yet Faustus cannot repent. He can grasp the letter of God's law ("The reward of sin is death: that's hard"), but he cannot conceive the saving grace of Christ. He asks Mephistophilis why the Devil's agent is out of hell, and Satan's servant answers: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it: Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being depriv'd of everlasting bliss...