Word: dreadfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distortion were nicely hidden by the smudge pots of her indignation." As for Millett's views: "She saw the differences between men and women as nonessential-excesses of motion to be conditioned out . . . She was the enemy of sex which might look for beauty at the edge of dread, she would never agree that was where love might go deepest...
Scorpio had been brooding about his much abused deviated septum when a copy of Norman Mailer's Of a Fire on the Moon arrived. It was a confrontation that would measure the dimensions of his dread. To begin with, Mailer, born Jan. 31, 1923, called himself Aquarius throughout the book. But there were other things to cause one to worry. Although Scorpio shared Aquarius' tendencies toward water displacement, there were incompatibilities. Aquarians were eccentric and extremely difficult to judge. Uranus had bestowed on them the gift of radical vision and strong impulses to alter the status...
...next summer, but they'll spend this winter, as last winter, in their one room. Mairiis, who was brought up on a homestead in a place on the coast where the winters are relatively mild, looked up at the fresh snow and shivered. "I kind of dread the winter here. It gets so cold...
Crippling Dread. It was the publication of Childhood and Society in 1950, Coles notes, that established Erikson's reputation. In that book, Erikson divided life into eight stages, and discussed the emotional conflict that he feels dominates each major step: from infancy ("Basic Trust v. Mistrust") to adolescence ("Identity v. Role Confusion") to adulthood ("Generativity v. Stagnation") to old age ("Ego Integrity v. Despair"). At each stage the crisis must be resolved if the person is to be unharmed by crippling dread or neurosis. At least from adolescence on, the role of society in general, and even the shaping...
...engaging habit of sending champagne and other lavish gifts to well-placed friends. They thought of him as an ex-Wehrmacht captain in Rommel's Afrika Korps who later made a fortune in Australia. Some whispered that he was actually a former lieutenant colonel in Hitler's dread SS who had joined Egyptian intelligence...