Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their meat axes and jittered wildly. Rawboned Sociologist Jones, 24, was twice sent out to tell Powell that any move would mean death to the hostages, and to report convict grievances (bucket toilets, young prisoners mixed with older men, a hated state parole commissioner). "It's tighter than hell," he said. "They're shook." Once he went back, as he had promised, to sit under the jugs; on the second trip Warden Powell refused his pleas to return...
...baffled reader may well ask, in Desmond's own words: "God damn it all to Hell, what on earth [is] going on?" Yet he will be persuaded by Author Cusack's virtuosity with word and image that the confusion has its own logic...
...visions induced by laughing gas. Like Baudelaire's true voyagers who leave for the sake of leaving, Desmond travels a long way sitting down. What is real is the poetry. Desmond's train at first seems actual enough, with slogans penciled "by obscenely-minded orangemen": "To Hell with Hitler. Down with Dublin. Up Kerry all the Time." Yet it is not quite a train either; it is "suspended between the north and the south like a star in the sky and not touching this earth: like a homing pigeon with no home, twisting and twirling, like a peregrine...
...attitude of "The hell with them" usually breeds the resolve no longer to care what "they" think, and to discard the notion, or what is by now the pretense, of being a representative. The student-leader's guiding motive shifts from the electorate to his own mind, or his own desires; the rationale is no longer representation, but power; not altruism, but egoism. And with this comes the abnegation of responsibility, a ram pant evil among Harvard undergraduates...
...fall in love with metaphor and this richness of language displeases only when it verges on words for words' sake. The setting in a God-conscious world gives an air of profundity to the word--a feeling intensified by the language--but an air not completely founded. Mendip's hell and Alizon's heaven and Jennet's "essential fact" are all modified...