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Since the middle of the 17th century, this illustrated Latin manuscript of the four Gospels has lain in the library. It is surrounded by a Caesar's ransom of rare editions-a first edition of Dante's Inferno, Caxton's Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers, a first folio of Shakespeare, one of the three known copies of the wordbook of Handel's Messiah-but it is the most valued. Last week, insured for $3,000,000, the Book of Kells was being readied for exhibition in London's Royal Academy-the first time...
...onto the street; rivulets of jet fuel skittered and splashed crazily and ignited into billows of flame, which in turn touched off the gasoline tanks of parked cars. Panicky tenants fled from a row of burning brownstone rooming houses. The empty Pillar of Fire Church (evangelical) turned into an inferno. Two men selling Christmas trees on a corner, a snow shoveler near by, and eight other Brooklynites were killed instantly...
...everything put before me and never suffered any violent ill effects." A bachelor, he liked ballroom dancing and escaped the heavy bores on his rounds by fleeing to the dance floor. "When you're a columnist," he said in the epilogue to his 1955 autobiography, Danton's Inferno, "you have to run just as fast as you can to stay where you are-and I do have that dancing date tomorrow night at El Morocco...
...small mountains sank out of sight, a 25-mile stretch of high ground dropped 1,000 feet, and new lakes were formed. Volcanic ash rose 23,000 ft. into the sky. Seismic waves washed away 630 of the 800 citizens of the fishing village of Queilen. In the inferno of lava, smoke, fire, water, avalanche and death, the helpless victims first scurried around in panic, then subsided into resigned silence. They worked feverishly to claw the dead and injured from the rubble...
Granted, Tennessee Williams' plays are objectionable and shocking to those critics who have forgotten their college literature. I suggest they reread Dante's Inferno or Voltaire's Candide. Anyone familiar with these masterpieces could hardly be shocked by anything as mild as Suddenly, Last Summer...