Word: dreadfulness
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...surprises here, timed adroitly and written with fine economy. But in an alien context, they merely reaffirm James as a mystery writer. Hers is a tough, literal mind, an exacting memory that knows where files are kept and where administrators hide their short cuts. The free-floating menace and dread in the novels of Diane Johnson or Beryl Bainbridge do not suit James because - like a classic mystery writer - she pins down her characters. Innocent Blood is full of cold people who have too little to do. One lays down the book half-satisfied, but with a chilling conclusion: good...
...mannequins and puppet Hitlers, Goerings, Goebbels and Speers and props from the attic of German history, Hitler becomes the common man, everyman, including ourselves--not an aberration in history, but an integral part and natural consequence of it--he is our progenitor, our mentor, as well as our innermost dread...
Growing up as the daughter of concentration camp survivors is like carrying "a terrible bomb," says Author Helen Epstein. That sense of menace and dread, she writes in her book Children of the Holocaust (Putnam; $10.95), can make New York City's Seventh Avenue subway seem like a train rolling through Poland to a death camp. As children, she and her brother armed themselves with kitchen knives whenever their parents were out, because the "burglars and murderers" might come at any time...
...financially solvent. As the kickoff date for Harvard's $250 million fund drive approached, Bok--despite his vow on taking office that he would not spend a great deal of personal time raising money--was forced out onto the road. Although Bok insists that he does not "hate or dread" any part of his job, he admits that fundraising--which now consumes about 25 per cent of his time--is not his favorite activity...
...This dread scenario is occurring with dismaying?and increasing ?frequency around the world. In the U.S. alone, 405,000 people will die of cancer and nearly a million new cases will be diagnosed this year. Nearly every family is affected; one out of every four Americans will eventually be stricken with the baffling disease. Progress has been made in treating some forms of cancer. Yet despite years of great effort and expense by government and private researchers around the world to understand and conquer the disease, the best that many cancer victims can hope for is to have their lives...