Word: infernos
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...cover the walls and ceiling. There are even bathrooms (really!), papered with pages of Euclid (gentlemen) or minarets, masks and medieval maidens (ladies). Bookshelves in a corner are filled with an array of titles, including A Room of One's Own, The Jerusalem Bible, Son of Dune, Dante's Inferno, and a Magazine called "Shark Week." A sign on the scary-looking detector at the door reads, "This is not a metal detector or anything scary like that. It's a bookguard system that will beep if people run off with our books. We got it so that...
Appearances to the contrary, Lui is not some hapless soul condemned to a lower circle of Dante's Inferno. She has been happily doing such work for eight years as one of the 95 product testers for Consumer Reports, the monthly magazine that has served as an indispensable guide for millions of shoppers since 1936. And a major reason for CR's success is the rigorous, painstaking, maybe obsessive and some might even say nutty striving for objectivity that Ginny Lui and her colleagues bring to the testing of products...
...physicist enters his room and sees the inferno. He pauses to make some rough measurements, runs into the hallway making order of magnitude calculations, finds the bucket, fills it with just enough water, and precisely pours it where it has the greatest effect, wasting little water and minimizing damage...
Pertile enjoys teaching, said one student, who was in both Pertile's seminar on Dante's Inferno and his course on contemporary Italian poetry last year...
...addition to its vibrant language, students will find this edition of the Inferno helpful for its reference chart which serves as a key to Dante's plan of hell. The guide lists each canto, its locale in hell, the endemic demons, the classes of souls and the names of the individual sinners who reside there. Extensive notes by Nicole Pinsky, a daughter of the translator and thirty-five black-and-white monotypes by the illustrator Michael Mazur (a department) add to this edition's offerings...