Word: dreadfulness
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...This now classical alienation from faith became Heidegger's concern. In his seminal work, Being and Time, he set out to investigate the nature of existence. He tried to discard the Cartesian dualism of mind and matter. Heidegger's man is "thrown" into the void. Confronted by dread, this "authentic person" lives in the full awareness of his extinction; between sentience and death he can find freedom and purpose...
...Promised Land, where they would found their "city upon a hill." Guilty about deserting the cause, the Puritans aboard the Arbella self-righteously sought their justification in the hopeless depravity of their English brethren. If the short-lived blossoming of Babylon--the successful Puritan Revolution--undercut that justification, the dread finality of the Restoration left the New England Congregationalists even more anxious and alone, involving them in a desperate search for a meaning to their "errand into the wilderness...
...Capitalism. Marley is Jamaica's superstar. He rivals the government as a political force. The mythical hero of his last album, Natty Dread, has already become a national symbol. Marley is a cynosure both in Jamaican society and in the trenchtown ghetto where he grew up. He seldom appears in either milieu, but when he does, it is with a retinue that includes a shaman, a cook, one "herbsman" laden with marijuana, and several athletes...
...scrutinizing them, but it has grabbed the attention of the island's politicians, who now realize that the easiest way to reach the electorate is through music. In most of Jamaica's record stores, next to the Maytals' Funky Kingston and the Wailers' Natty Dread is a $5.50 album called Michael Manley Speaks to the Nation...
...courtroom last week, U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Dr. Louis J. West argued that making a captive feel "debility, dependency and dread" is the key to controlling his behavior. And, added West, Patty was a victim of "persuasive coercion"-another description for gradually breaking down a P.O.W...