Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this out of good conscience because I found the opening night of The Balcony mannered, irritating, and interminable. Now subjective judgments don't mean a hell of a lot, particularly from the none-too-enlightened critics of the Harvard Summer News, particularly with a play as ambiguous and difficult as The Balcony. But one or two impressions spring to mind...
...Taking someone behind a door and beating hell out of him? Our officers wouldn't dare," says Reddin. "They know that if they did, they'd be prosecuted, and might just wind up in the joint." Undoubtedly, there are more subtle forms of physical abuse?an elbow in the back or a punch in the kidney. But the new worry, as Reddin readily admits, is psychological brutality?the condescending look, or the tone of voice that indicates to a man that he is a suspect merely because of his color, clothes or accent...
...says Patrolman Kasaras, "you're supposed to contain yourself." The young policeman, adds Reddin, "deals with filth, the dregs of humanity, on a minute-to-minute basis. It's not hard for him to reach a point where he says that people are no damn good, so to hell with people." Yet as Miami Beach's Chief Rocky Pomerance only half-jokingly observes, "a policeman these days has to be part priest, part psychiatrist, part social worker, part karate expert?and he has to be able to make a decision in a few seconds that will stand up before complex...
...coolly under stress, as he did in August 1965, when he was called in at the last minute to devise the strategy that eventually quieted a ravaged city. Seventeen months after taking charge, he cannot hide his enthusiasm at being chief. "I love the challenge," he says. "It scares hell out of me, but I love it." He adds: "This is the year...
...Mexico, graves are still decorated with candy skulls and toy skeletons. These are afterward given to the children to play with or to eat. For a tableau of hell (opposite). Girard combined bread-and-sugar diablos from Ecuador, plaster devils from Bolivia, pottery Satans from Venezuela, and unpainted wood grotesques from the Mexican town of Erongarícuaro...