Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pitted himself against opponents even more formidable than Milton Berle -Darwin, Freud, Marx and Satan. He gives hell to democrats for not being democratic, to capitalists for being greedy, to all the West for giving Communism an opening by not living up to its own Christian faith. He has harangued statesmen about war & peace and young brides about their sex life. He has announced that he prays every morning for Joseph Stalin, and he has approvingly quoted a heretic (Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr) on the Catholic Hour. His influence as a preacher is incalculably great...
...Whenever I discover whe I am, I'll be free," says the boy. "I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own." At the end, the fog of his confusions lifting, Author Ellison's hero thinks of his slave grandfather, knows that, "Hell, he never had any doubts about his humanity-that was left to his 'free' offspring...
...irony of an age of science producing global and atomic conflicts and an age of reason culminating in a life-and-death struggle between two forms of 'scientific' politics . . . We are drawn into a situation where the paradise of our domestic security is suspended in a hell of global insecurity . . . Our own nation . . . is less potent to do what it wants in the hour of its greatest strength than it was in the.days of its infancy." Connecting all of these incongruities-and the cause of some-is an unrealistic and complacent American "idealism," boastful of its superior virtue...
...first novel, though Cooper wrote and destroyed another one a quarter-century ago when a literary agent said it was no good. Cooper knew that the odds were much against his finding a publisher. He sent Houghton Mifflin an apologetic note: "Your reader is going to say what the hell, and I don't blame him." Instead, the readers formed a Cooper cheering section. Wrote one of them: "For my part, I want no editing. I think every word important...
Laughton's solo reading tours were made under M.C.A. sponsorship, but 30-year-old Gregory quit his job and went into business for himself to manage the First Drama Quartette (which plays Don Juan in Hell). He claims that his four prima donnas display surprisingly little temperament. Laughton, says Gregory, "has a reputation for being difficult, and he can be extremely difficult. But Charles and I work very well together." Agnes Moorehead and Cedric Hardwicke have the controlled emotions of veteran troupers. The only near blowup was caused by Boyer, who got a case of nerves during the chaotic...