Word: dreadfulness
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Those who study hatred are blotted out; Israel continues, from Father Abraham to this [March 10] issue of TIME. A generation will come when our descendants will look on these dread portraits of King Faisal as Shelley looked on the rubble of Ozymandias' sneer...
What the University and the city must hope for, and the gnat-like neighborhood groups must dread, is that the Kennedys decide on a middle course--one that may involve slipping in a museum in, or near, the archives. And with Pei's plans only in their infancy, it's a course that could very easily be taken...
...divided into two classes, soluble questions, which are trivial, and important questions, which are insoluble." For many years the magazine took that epigram seriously. Through the Depression and even through the war, Harold Ross, the magazine's legendary founder, preferred not to confront moral issues. "His old dread," recalled the owlish humorist James Thurber, "that the once carefree New Yorker, going nowhere blithely, like a wandering minstrel, was likely to become rigidly 'grim,' afflicted his waking hours and his dreams...
CHINATOWN. The year's most skilled and elegant Hollywood entertainment. A Los Angeles private eye (sardonically played by Jack Nicholson) stumbles into a slough of personal and political corruption. The movie is a lambent caution about the dread but immutable uses of wealth and power...
About the only growth industry in Italy these days is kidnaping. So far this year there have been 42 cases (compared with only nine in 1970). Since ransom demands often run more than $1 million, rich Italians are now looking nervously over their shoulders for the dread rapitori. Like any other booming industry, however, kidnaping has brought in a number of inefficient entrepreneurs, who, if they continue at their present stumbling pace, are likely to queer the whole business...