Word: dreadfulness
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...mass murders that were more brutal and claimed more victims. But there have been few if any so exquisitely attuned to the anonymity and impersonality of modern urban and suburban life. Paranoia is supposed to be an irrational fear, but who can now say that it is silly to dread that innocent bottle of capsules? -By George J. Church. Reported by Lee Griggs/Chicago and Adam Zagorin/ New York
Haider (Alan Howard) is a kind of academic Walter Mitty. But unlike Thurber's daydreamer, Haider has fantasies of failure, doubt and dread. Something dreadful does actually happen to him, and the question-and-answer core of the late British playwright C.P. Taylor's play is how and why. How does a seemingly decent, liberal-minded man like Haider, who lectures on the German classics at the University of Frankfurt, and whose best friend Maurice (Joe Melia) is a Jewish psychoanalyst, wage a retreat from conscience that finds him at Auschwitz as the right-hand man of Adolf...
...says it's a shame that most people know Doering, who is also his advisor, only in the context of Chem 20, a course Tsomides says Doering hates to teach. He admits that the course's reputation as one of the College's most competitive leads most people to dread it; only by taking the class as a freshman, before word of its reputation had really sunk in, did Tsomides emerge relatively unscathed...
Mark Donohue, the 1972 Indy winner, quit for a time because of an expressed feeling of dread. He got over it and died in the Austrian Grand Prix at Graz. Dashing Peter Revson gave "Miss World" a playful squeeze and asked, "Is there a better life?" His ended in the South African Grand Prix at Johannesburg...
...makes this configuration: nuclear bombs preside, in a dark, speculative way, over the human imagination of war. Nuclear is to conventional war what the monotheism of the avenging God was to the old amiably human and relatively harmless idolatries of polytheism. The wrath of God becomes the dread mushroom and megadeath and firestorm-totality, cessation. It is not relative, like the old wars, but absolute, the utter blank of extinction. Nuclear war sits in the mind like the lurid medieval vision of hell: horrible-and yet, well, hypothetical...