Word: infernale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The worst horrors of the 20th century derive from politics or science or both. This was not always the case. For a millennium and a half the worst horrors were theological. The fear of hell and the hope of heaven gave shape to some of the greatest achievements of the...
Thus came the allies' all-but-decisive blow to recapture the scene of the fiercest and most costly battle of the Vietnamese war to date, a battle so unlike any that had gone before it in the war that allied forces had to learn by doing. During the four...
All the same, Author Mayer has come away with more faith in the law than many lawyers. Says he: "The rest of us put up with the arrogance of the lawyers-accept their, rigidities, their partial perceptions, their occasional corruption, their portentous self-praise, their cant, their infernal waste of...
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) may not have been a great artist, but he was great as an artist. He was a flashing volcano of creation and affectation in many arts, but he was best known for his strange novels (Thomas l'Imposteur, Les Enfants Terribles), his baroque plays (The...
So What? MacBird is hardly a visitant from the infernal backside of American political thought--"a genuine happening in which an underground author confronted the overworld, exposing dangerous private fantasies to public eyes and ears" (Brustein) or "a needed corrective, a purgative of our Stygian world" (Clureman). There is nothing...