Word: torments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair of Siamese-twin flunkies, joined by one long white beard, who go about their chores on roller skates. Best of many good sequences: a bizarre ballet, staged by Choreographer Eugene (Billy the Kid) Loring, in which a dungeonful of non-piano-playing musicians writhe in expressionistic torment as they are punished by fanatical Pianoman Terwilliker...
...whenever I asked for money." The children's food was coarse, the farm milk was often sour, their clothes were made of cheap material. To improve these conditions, Sister Madeleine ran up debts, stole jewelry and silver to sell in Biarritz. Said she: "I lived a life of torment at the château, because I knew that someday I would be found out. But I had the arms of my dear little children around my neck. It was a good time...
Tragedy & Torment. Convinced that the tragedy had not been her fault, the police did not even book Mrs. Gutheridge. Later that night, however, the phone rang in her small apartment. When she picked up the receiver, a young man's voice asked harshly: "How does it feel to be a murderess, Mrs. Gutheridge...
...because it makes men moral, but because it civilizes them. He enjoyed mocking American. English and German Protestants for their rigid dismissal of superstition and their concern with questions of conduct. The doctrine of eternal damnation (he wrote) did not mean that man must behave himself lest he suffer torment in the afterlife, but was a poetically enlightening image which refined men's sensibility and hardened their stoicism before the intolerable truth that all human acts, all evils and all pain, are irremediable. What is done is done, and man must take the consequences with open eyes. Between Spanish...
...will pay with torment...