Word: infernos
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They went through Dante's house and discussed the Inferno. Then one of the women insisted on visiting Elizabeth Barrett Browning's grave, which was not on the official agenda at all. In Ferney, on the French-Swiss border, they saw Voltaire's chateau and talked about Candide. In Augsburg, a Lutheran pastor who spoke no English gave them a lecture on the Reformation, and they tried but failed to get into the monastery where Luther once lived. Next on the list was Faust, but since Weimar is behind the Iron Curtain, they had to settle...
...skill and hot sports cars, Italy's Mille Miglia ranks with the world's toughest races. The 950-mile course-from Brescia to Rome and back -runs over the hairpin turns of four rugged mountain passes (one so grim that it inspired some of Dante's Inferno), through scores of towns and villages, and along straight ribbons of road where the racers hit it up as high as 150 m.p.h...
...third speaker, Ciardi, is Briggs-Copeland Associate Professor of English Composition. He is the author of many volumes of poetry, including "From Time to Time," and is now working on a translation of Dante's "Inferno," planned for publication...
...finally, at 5 o'clock one morning last week, after 67 hours of unrelieved parliamentary inferno, the Chamber came to a vote. The 180 Communists and fellow-traveling Socialists of Pietro Nenni's faction marched out without voting. The rest voted 339 to 25 to approve the electoral reform bill, and sent it on to the Senate. Foresighted attendants transferred the emergency cots to the anterooms of the Senate...
...best temperance-tract tradition, a mere glass and a half of red wine starts Erwin Sommer, a fortyish wholesale produce dealer, on the road to an alcoholic inferno. Uneasy over business losses and unhappy with his martinet wife, he soon regards the bottle as man's best friend. He cheats to get contracts, he lies to his wife, and he pays court to a blowzy waitress whom he blearily crowns "The Queen of Alcohol...