Word: dreadfulness
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Other religious thinkers see no problem with a geneticist's manipulating DNA to eradicate dread diseases. Rabbi Seymour Siegel, professor of ethics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City and the only clergyman on the President's bioethics commission, did not sign last week's statement...
...many people understand the nature of this skill, and fewer have seen it in action at the level of world-class play. High-stakes poker is secretive; it is illegal in most places, and embarrassing both to losers, whose associates tend to fret, and to winners, who dread the taxman. Thus the English writer and poker player A. Alvarez (author of another examination of self-destruction, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide) was beguiled when he heard that there was one card room in the world where an observer could watch no-limit, heavyweight poker without getting into...
...reported stories for TIME on subjects ranging from genetic engineering to nuclear fusion: "I believe that I became a science reporter because I love mysteries. But after seeing the workshops, I've decided that some mysteries should be left alone. Discovering that Darth Vader's dread Death Star is a ball of plastic is a bit like learning that Santa's beard is fake." At home, Thompson prefers the simple way of life. A traditional grandfather clock stands in his living room, and he drives a 1973 VW bug. Says he: "At least I can understand...
...could never develop character. So much for the mañana cultures. So much, in fact, for San Diego. Such cultures had no Darwinian need for foresight, Huntington thought, no drive to store up nuts for winter. They did not feel that stirring of energy and anticipation and pragmatic dread when the first chill came on, making them think responsibly, in the future tense. Bad weather makes people miserable, and busy. Provide, provide...
...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...