Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...divorce. Too little love, rather than too much, has turned another son into a mother's boy, and he has married a nymphomaniac. A discarded husband and father of 29 years before turns up to meet his sons and resample a bit of the vocal and emotional hell that he and their mother can still give each other. Old rage rather than old age is their subject. Alan Webb, as an ancient butler, potters and poeticizes near life's exit with a funny and touching gallantry and even cheats incipient rigor mortis a couple of times...
...Star, took an alimentary approach. "God's great gift to man is appetite," he said. "Put nothing in the paper that will destroy it." Wilbur Storey of the Chicago Times (now the Sun-Times) once classified a newspaper's highest duty as "printing the news and raising hell." Thomas Gibson, who established the Denver Rocky Mountain Herald in 1860, defined a great newspaper as one "untrammeled by sinister influence from any quarter-advocate of the right and denouncer of the wrong-an independent vehicle for the free expression of all candid, honest and intelligent minds...
This paper's run for the readers, and we don't give a hoot in hell whether it pleases other newspapers or editors or makes them sick. We're for the general public, its likes and dislikes, its peeves and aspirations...
...command. Chicago Dermatologist Theodore Lawless fought off subtle rebuffs while an instructor at Northwestern University. When his hand was to be photographed giving an injection to demonstrate a new technique, he was asked to wear a surgical glove so his dark hand would not "be seen. "I said, 'Hell no,' " he recalls, "and I never...
...time vampire? Faustus has the vampire put to death by impalement and recovers his ring. Then master alchemists appear before him (old Ben Jonson characters like Linus Pauling) to urge that he destroy the ring and save the world. He does-by plunging with it into the fires of Hell, where he ends up playing cards with the Devil...