Word: dreaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marked by a death or serious illness in the family that left them with anxieties about disease and dying. Such experiences, says Ford, lead both groups to make illness a way of life. Somatizers try to allay their fears by repeatedly seeking medical help; physicians strive to overcome their dread by "devoting themselves to conquering disease...
...that moment of seemingly hypnotized attention most men know and dread. It is a moment in which they are out of control as individuals-not merely outside the law, but out of biological order. Something stirs, an ancient reflex, as if they are dragged back through history to a starting point in evolution. The mob is a pack, its prey the female. Her difference is the instigator, her frailty the goad. Rape what you cannot have. Plunder what you can never know. Mystery equals fear equals rage equals death. It is she who stands for all life's threats...
Father (Peter Michael Goetz) has the wheyfaced fatigue and resigned gallantry of the immigrant provider who got a foothold on U.S. soil only to have the Depression whittle it to a scrabbling fingerhold on survival. Simon is openly comfortable with the Jewishness of his characters, and he knows the dread words that are italicized whispers in this home: "cancer," "diphtheria," "heart attack...
...Even kids in the first grade are talking about their fears," Chivian said, and that dread "translates into a fear that they may not grow up." The implications of this fear are far-reaching, because there is a great danger of raising a generation of children "some of whom have no belief in the future," he added...
Computers, which can correct, expand, recopy and print words at the flick of a key, have increasingly stirred the interest of writing and language arts teachers, a group that once eyed the computer revolution with suspicion and dread. Two years ago, researchers at New York City's progressive Bank Street College of Education decided to find out how word processors might affect the writing of their students. They had a few hundred grade-school children and a dozen microcomputers. But they lacked one necessary ingredient: a suitable writing program. Recalls President Richard Ruopp: "We tested the available word processors...