Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ranges from the pantomime of weary conquistadors making their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes to the incandescent white and gold robes of the Inca sun god. When it gets down to dramatic brass tacks, however, the play is full of such tacky fugues as war is hell, God is dead, and life lacks meaning...
...sound exactly like a 45-year-old fat man bragging about how brave, powerful and marvelous it is that he can lick and kick the hell out of a three-year-old child. The whole U.S. Viet Nam operation is madly sickening...
Since this is not likely to vanish overnight, De Gaulle's speech said much more about his state of mind than about his country. Le Monde sarcastically likened the De Gaulle choice to one between heaven and hell: "If it is to be paradise, for how much more time? And if the inevitable toll of time condemns us in any case to hell, what good are the extra years of grace...
...soul, or resurrection, in the sense of a new creation. Either concept is totally different from the endless treadmill of reincarnation visualized by the Eastern religions; the Christian view of eternity is not merely endless time, and it need not involve the old physical concept of heaven and hell. It does involve the survival of some essence of self, and an encounter with God. "Life after death," said Theologian Karl Earth, should not be regarded like a butterfly-he might have said a balloon-that "flutters away above the grave and is preserved somewhere. Resurrection means not the continuation...
...author, who is now 78, "I had written four so-called serious novels that had got some critical praise. But I realized that I was not and never would be a great writer. I had decided, though, that I was a pretty good storyteller-so I decided what the hell, I'd just tell stories." He has done it well enough to have earned $1,500,000 over the years, without having had to sell to TV ("I can't stand the goddamn thing"). And two professors are even writing a scholarly treatise on Wolfe, "though...