Word: dreadfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Barber's view, Nixon's greatest fear was "public exposure of personal inadequacy." While he often proclaimed his relish for combat, he seemed to dread it at the same time; it was as if defeat would mean, as it did for the King of the Wood in Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough, a sentence of death. It was his efforts to prevent the exposure of his Administration's failings that ultimately undid...
...toothed helplessness represents Woman Wronged. Nothing will do, she announces, but that Brian divorce her and marry Wendy. This is horror at its most gothic-an intermittently tolerable mistress about to be transformed into an utterly frightful wife, complete with infant-and Brian's soul is filled with dread...
...wages of sin" -the punishment for Adam's fall.* Ever since, Ramsey insists, death has been "the enemy." Jesus' death on the cross redeemed man for immortality, but did nothing to prevent death from being a shattering separation of soul and body. Christians, argues Ramsey, thus properly dread death, and in their care for the sick wisely laid the foundations of Western medicine. Nowadays, Ramsey says, "true humanism" still depends on a "dread of death." Romantically investing death with a bogus dignity, he suggests, may in fact hinder care for the dying by establishing...
Fest punctuates his chronological drama with a kind of intermission-"interpolations," he calls them-in which he examines such historical topics as the "great dread" that afflicted Germans during the chaotic Weimar era. Hitler's foolish and criminal rush into war ("War is life," he said), and the Führer's relationship to the forces of German history. The author rejects the line of thought that explains Hitler by tracing the Führer's philosophical antecedents back through centuries of Teutonic mysticism and blood-dimmed sense of divine mission. He also rejects the simple-minded...
...sickly appearance and speculated on the cause, French publications began to take note of it. Revealing photos were widely published, and some commentators openly called on the government to provide information about the President's health. None was forthcoming, and few reporters did much independent digging. The dread word cancer remained unpublished...