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...early '30s and shaped his libretto from two plays by the great German Dramatist Frank Wedekind (1864-1918), who was obsessed by the fury, the brevity and the desolation of the pursuit of sexual pleasure. As Wedekind's translator put it, "he dealt in 'the hellish drive out of which no joy remains alive.' " In both of his plays, Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box), Wedekind centered this hell in a promiscuous woman, Lulu...
Finally let us not denigrate, let us not undermine the "rigidly structured Negro society" of Atlanta and other cities. In the current situation the likely alternative is the hellish chaos of Harlem. We must keep the old world in effective health while the new world is a building. Louis L. Jaffe Professor...
Hearty and Hellish! (the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem; Columbia). The Irish revolutionaries who now campaign on the nightclub circuit bring their characteristic gusto to the folk favorites of the pubs-love songs, drinking songs, and a few broad digs at Mother England...
HEARTY AND HELLISH! (the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem; Columbia). The Irish revolutionaries who now campaign on the nightclub circuit launch with characteristic gusto into the folk favorites of the pubs. In the quartet's repertory are love songs, drinking songs (Whiskey, You're the Devil) and a few broad digs at Mother England...
Eleanora's aura of mature respectability, pitted against Jean-Louis' young yearnings, lends low-key drama to her languid, libidinous surrender. The violence in Summer comes with a hellish, heart-halting air raid at film's end, in which green-and-golden youth agonizes over red-and-black realities of war. The slaughter awakens in Trintignant compassion and duty; his suffering loses him Eleanora but gives him manhood...