Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...temerity to call another "ballet," a lunatic romp called "L'Oeuf a la Coque." In this explosive and completely delightful work the dancers do handsprings, cartwheels, splits, and double splits--as well as a few bumps and grinds. All this happens when three leggy girls arrive in Hell in the form of chickens. They are danced into ovens by friends dressed as chefs, but soon emerge and proceed to seduce their would-be tormentors. The fiends don't have much of a chance...
...beautiful Cape Sable was one long holiday and here it was being handed to him for eternity-swimming and boating, good food and plenty to drink, handsome, leggy girls and no questions asked. But John Wallis turned it down cold; he ran away from it straight into a private hell of his own choosing...
Would the world in the next 30 years go to the Slichterian heaven or the Orwellian hell? That was a political-and therefore a moral-question. In 1900 scientists had not greatly concerned themselves with political or moral issues, but as the half-century ended they knew themselves to be very deeply involved in such questions. A sharp warning on the political future came from a scientist, Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime boss of the Government's scientific mobilization and head of the Carnegie Institution of Washington...