Word: infernos
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...liberalistic extremists and patsies who have so unintelligently criticized Mr. Goldwater's magnificent classical statement in his acceptance speech would do well to heed Dante's Inferno: "A special place in Hell is reserved for those who in the face of a great moral dilemma maintain neutrality...
...Italian-born West Coast painter and sculptor, a wistful, wiry Neapolitan whose lifelong preoccupation with the grotesque and the macabre led critics to think of him as a 20th century Goya, produced a savage, semi-abstract body of work illustrating grim themes classic and modern, from Dante's Inferno and the Crucifixion to Dachau and Buchenwald; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...three-panel Trilogy suggests a man who enters a closet and hangs himself. His realism is obtuse, his figures often secret sharers in politely observed crimes or Baconesque participants in some gory exercise. Often he veils or blurs his figures. They seem to enact Dante's Inferno in modern dress, where the condemned of the sixth circle knew the eternal future and remembered the past but had no sense of their present horror. In the drama, they fulfill Goodman's ideals of stillness and deadly substance within a stagelike space that he derives from such of his idols...
Shaw's Hell turns out to be a very pleasant place. One would have expected him to create a pleasant Inferno, just as one would have expected him to create, in the main portion of the play, a predatory woman, a snivelling romantic who pursues her in vain and an anti-romantic iconoclast whom she finally corners...
...headless and otherwise distorted, alternately embrace and support each other. They seem to battle against the grasp of the deep shadows which model their limbs and torsos. The prevailing mood is Dantesque. Lebrun's style adapts excellently to his bat-winged "Lucifer" and to several smaller drawings for the "Inferno," but seems out-of-place when applied to "Two Dancers...