Word: dread
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Everywhere the tramps go, they encounter the fear of "community" people, and learn to dread and despise that fear. Muses Bolle. once a skilled cigarmaker, now with "the homeless hands of the displaced craftsman: "If all people had lived in accordance with their collective fears, everyone would have become stationary, like a tree. In their heart of hearts, perhaps, most people would like to be plants, to be tall trees with eyes that could survey their surroundings and always be able to see and convince themselves that no one was coming, no one was going, no one could move; that...
...spectacular arrival in England last week of General Ivan Serov, boss of Russia's dread secret police (see FOREIGN NEWS), was in sharp contrast to his discreet entry into India and Burma last December-when TIME first turned a journalistic spotlight on him. During the early part of that tour with Khrushchev and Bulganin, Serov managed to remain always close at hand but as unobtrusive as a plainclothesman. At state functions and banquets he was billed on programs and place cards simply as I. Serov. This meaningful name on the list of the Khrushchev-Bulganin entourage sent TIME...
...very young, the show had all the horror of a recalled nightmare: the massed banners and goose-stepping thunder of helmeted battalions, the full-throated Sieg Heils of ecstatic crowds. The film, as a whole, was not illumined by any unifying idea, but it had value as a dread remembrance of things past...
...dread the prospect," says the current issue of the Protestant fortnightly Christianity and Crisis. The prospect: Evangelist Billy Graham's next crusade in Manhattan, scheduled for some time in 1957. Christianity and Crisis, edited by Theologians Reinhold Niebuhr and John C. Bennett, gives its reasons...
...daughter of the Lost Generation, I thank you for the article. I feel more strongly than ever that the force causing my generation to join churches, nurse our babies (indeed, have them at all!) and raise little vegetable gardens in our subdivision rectangles is not nearly so much dread of The Bomb as retreat from the dank void of Godless intellectualism that shrouded us Depression babies, and that Mencken symbolized...