Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hell with it. We'll get a more sophisticated man into space...
About six months ago, Author John (The Wapshot Chronicle) Cheever announced publicly that "life in the U.S. in 1960 is hell." Since hell is a private estate, it might be supposed that he could have been speaking merely for himself. But his scores of short stories and now this book of new ones prove plainly, of course, that he was speaking as well for his not-so-fictional characters. The hell he has staked out for them is by now unmistakably Cheever country (nice house, nice income, nice wife, nice kids, all of it tasting of despair and a thick...
...Would Know. Other composers have followed. Some agreed to write commercials as soon as they were asked, and others, it appears, held Faustian dialogues with themselves for as long as ten seconds. Adler describes his temptation: "They kept asking me, and I finally decided 'Why the hell not?' Rock 'n' roll was eating up all the air time anyway, and I was offered a good big piece of money [his take to date for five jingles: $250,000]. Besides, it never occurred to me that anyone would ever know I had done...
...compassion for suffering mankind. But at their best they have, even in their sledgehammer bluntness, a rare subtlety. "What I want in my work," says Strombotne, "is beauty, power and mystery. Each word in capitals. Real beauty, real power-plus mystery. I want my pictures to be specific as hell, but enigmatic...
Marcel Aymé, 59, is never seen out of doors without dark glasses, which rather befits a Mephistophelian moralist. Hell may be badly paved but it is well...