Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another glimpse of Faustus's inner nightmare comes when three of his students visit him an hour before he is due to go down to hell. They look shy and callow, out of it, as he stands talking about hell--which has been in Faustus's mind every day now for 24 years...
Mephistopheles (played by Andrea Teuber '64) begs Faustus to stay away from the underworld, but Mephistopheles is such a stoic sufferer that he doesn't succeed in convincing Faustus that hell is really that awful. He does convince us, however, provided we can believe that someone could keep so quiet about his misery...
Elizabeth Taylor, on the other hand, always manages to look sultry, alluring, and so conscious of her beauty that she almost makes you believe it's really there. She drags Faustus into hell, showing her true colors at last: bright red lips, those two even rows of pearly teeth, and skin the color of a sour green apple...
...been set back by months, and perhaps years, as a result of the Communists' recent attacks against the cities of the South. With the countryside wide open to Viet Cong soldiers, recruiters and tax collectors, the crucial rural-pacification effort is at a standstill. "We have had a hell of a setback," admitted a high-ranking U.S. official in Viet Nam. "To even mention 'the other war' at this time is just a lot of nonsense...
...about five miles, star shells were fired from Maddox. It was, in McNamara's words, "a very dark, moonless, overcast night"-or, as Maddox Radarman James Stankevitz put it, "darker than the hubs of hell...