Word: hells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...turning out to be considerably more lively than the session, which so far has set a record unmatched in two decades for legislative inactivity. Critics have already dubbed the 96th the "do nothing" Congress, the same fighting words used by President Harry Truman in his famous "Give 'em hell" assault on the 80th Congress when he was running for election...
...movies and television would sometimes unreel in their brains as they moved toward a tree line or a Vietnamese village, and in bizarre synaptic flips between reality and pictures, they would see themselves for an instant as, say, Audie Murphy winning his Congressional Medal of Honor in To Hell and Back. One writer called these dislocating fan tasies "life-as-movie, war-as-war-movie, war-as-life." The men could ridicule "John Wayneing," but the effect was metaphysically spooky. And, of course, it could get you killed...
Whatever fascination The Flight to Lucifer holds lies in the historical and philosophical interest in Gnosticism itself, not in Bloom's bankrupt dramatization of it. The Gnostics envision a complete reversal of Biblical myths on the order of Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell. In their version, the Old Testament's creator-God becomes the evil Demiurge, who created the physical world to imprison man and estrange him from the true God--who is not part of Creation at all, but an alien being to whom men with true knowledge, or gnosis, seek to return. The doctrines make provocative...
...complicated and the stakes the highest imaginable. The outcome will test the ability of a democratic society to solve the most involved technical questions, ones on which experts offer diametrically opposed opinions. Caution, sobriety, careful weighing of risks, which cannot be escaped, ought to be the watchwords. Slogan shouting-"Hell, no, we won't glow," vs. "Let the bastards freeze in the dark"-merely impedes progress toward America's energy future. Simply put, the nation needs to move forward to improve the safety, reliability and efficiency of all forms of energy-including nuclear, and the many alternatives...
...office door. It was still there when Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph A. Califano Jr. faced a contempt threat as a result of a North Carolina civil rights suit. Bell, who would be called on to defend his fellow Cabinet member, forwarded the offering to Califano. "What a hell of a thing," said Joe. "To find that the guy who is going to help you stay out of jail has sent you a hacksaw...