Word: infernos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forget O.J. Simpson, running through the flaming conflagration of The Towering Inferno in his first appearance on the big screen, only to hand Fred Astaire Jennifer Jones' cat--and leave Jennifer Jones to roast in the skyscraper. Or the likes of shipmate Roddy McDowall, saving some singing blonde floozy when the cruiser Poseidon rolled over and played dead--only to end up a piece of fondue in the ship's smokestack...
...gods of man's myths were elaborately, even bizarrely, vengeful. In the Inferno, Dante's Deity was satanically inventive in making the vengeance fit the crime. The best tragic theater (Hamlet, for example) and some of the worst has been built around the deep urge to settle someone's hash. In an orgy of horrific finality and emotional overstatement, Medea murders her two sons and hurls their corpses at Jason. That, God knows, ought to teach...
...against the invasion of French and English terms," the Dante Society, with 310 chapters worldwide, has since become a vehicle for the diffusion of Italian language and culture throughout the world. The society is named for the 13th-century Italian poet whose "Divine Comedy," an imaginary excursion through the Inferno (hell), Purgatory and Paradise (heaven) is one of the classics of Italian literature...
ABANDON HOPE, ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE. That legendary inscription over the gate of hell, as described in Dante's Inferno, appeared last week on a sign that New York Democrat Stephen Solarz posted at a meeting of the House Budget Committee. His point was to warn his fellow liberals that they have no chance of stopping a congressional drive to balance next year's budget, in part by cuts in Government social spending which the liberals find downright hellish...
...Heaney's line breaks seem a bit contrived. Sometimes, too, the poet couples abstractions, such as "sibilant penumbra" or "mellowed clarities" which ask too much of the reader, even the active one. Finally, his detached version of the Ugolino episode in Cantos 32 and 33 of Dante's Inferno, which concludes Field Work, does not measure up to the profundity of his personal lyrics...