Word: dreadfulness
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...Executioner's Song, By Norman Mailer. (Little, Brown. $16.95): This is simply the most important book of the year. Norman Mailer '43 tells the story of Gary Gilmore, the professional convict and murderer who was executed in Utah in 1978, in a spare prose style pervaded with the dread of death. Everyone except Roger Rosenblatt liked it. Mailer claims he rediscovered America doing the book. He finally shows evidence that he can fulfill the awesome promise he created with the publication of The Naked and the Dead some 30 years ago, at the callow...
...people gather on the beach and the leader try to make a speech. But Dread (Rastafari) again tell them it's too late; fire is burning, man, pull your own weight...
Many Democrats fear the party will be so badly split by it that the White House will be lost to the Republicans. On the other hand, many Republicans dread the possibility of a Kennedy victory. Says House Republican Leader John Rhodes...
...prime instance where the woman is not free to choose to become pregnant. The restriction of federal support to cases of rape, incest and probable death of the mother suggests an interesting quality-of-life argument: that potentiality is not absolute but must be prorated. Due to society's dread of incest, such a mother and her child would be spared a psychologically unbearable life. In case of danger to the mother's life we do not hear that the 'child' has potentially far more years of happy, productive life than the mother. Rather, the argument runs that the mother...
When Catholic immigrants began arriving in large waves in the 19th century, anti-Catholicism developed into a profound civic dread. To Yankee eyes, Romanism swarmed in on the jammed immigrant ships, endangering America's agrarian dreams, clogging the cities with cheap labor. The old elites regarded the immigrants as the canaille that Jefferson had warned against; democracy could not survive such hordes of the ignorant and illiterate with their allegiances to a sinister wizard who dwelled in Rome surrounded by the skeletons of Borgias. (The Catholic immigrants, flocking together in a consciousness of their own differences, and with some...