Word: infernoes
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...dear, free Italy, but I do not regret the terrible years in Russia during which I was the instrument used by God to carry the comfort of religion to many poor unfortunates. If I could go back and choose freely, I would want to relive those ten years of inferno exactly as I did live them...
...trend began $% years ago, when the famed British firm of Penguin set up a U.S. branch in Baltimore. Today Penguins are selling at the rate of 1,500,000 a year, and among the bestsellers are such titles as The Odyssey, The Canterbury Tales and Dante's Inferno. In 1953 Doubleday followed, with Anchor books. They were good to look at, with clean, modern covers, and offered (at 65? to $1.25 a volume) such fine old fare as Trevelyan's History of England, such first-rate modern fiction as Henry Green's Loving. Total sales of Anchor...
They read everything from Beardsley's Practical Logic to Crane Brinton's Ideas and Men. They studied the Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita, proceeded to the Iliad, the plays of Sophocles and Shakespeare, Dante's Inferno, The Brothers Karamazov, Remembrance of Things Past, Ulysses, The Magic Mountain and Moby Dick. They read The Portable Medieval Reader and the Autobiography of Cellini, studied the economics of Adam Smith and Marx, of Tawney, Keynes and Executive Suite...
...ninety fire-filled years ago, a burning grate pilled high with colas started one of the University's most disastrous blazes. In the middle of the winter of 1764 the fire place in Harvard Hall, where the Massachusetts General Assembly was meeting, set the famous building into an inferno. When the blaze subsided most of the books in John Harvard's original library were up in smoke and the hall lay in ashes...
Even ubiquitous TIME has no bureau in Dante's inferno-but is not Beelzebub your stringer? Only supernatural news sources could have supplied Mr. Attlee's comments he did not make about a place he did not visit ["Different people had different tastes, but it did seem rather...