Word: dreadfulness
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...latter-day equivalent of Greek tragedy, Kott recommends, as a salient example, the spectacle of a paralyzed man confronting a woman half-buried alive: Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, "the final version of the Prometheus myth." Nor does Kott fail to provide the unerringly apt caption-Sophocles' dread-filled line, "Nothing surpasses not being born...
Papa Doc is dead, and the title of President for Life has passed to his son Jean-Claude, 21. Under the comparatively benign rule of "Baby Doc," the activities of the dread secret police known as the Tontons Macoutes (Creole for bogeymen) have been curbed. The ostentatious display of military presence has been muted, although rifle-bearing police and militiamen can still be seen on the streets of Port-au-Prince, the capital. Even more important from the tourists' viewpoint Jean-Claude has extended a welcoming hand to foreign investors and visitors...
...Randers wait in mingled hope and dread for word of Sergeant First Class Donald Rander of Army Intelligence, captured at Hue on Feb. 1, 1968. Shortly thereafter two fellow soldiers who escaped reported that he had been wounded in the arm but was alive in a Viet Cong prison camp in South Viet Nam. There has been no word from Rander in five years. So his women wait, worry and try to pretend that there is holly in their hearts...
...concern the reader, who turns to Pseudodoxia Epidemica in the same spirit that he turns to Wittgenstein or Levi-Strauss: to collect what could be called "taxonomies of natural phenomena." Nostalgia, the sad evocation of our universal angst, episodes which recall a decisive moment in our lives, ontological dread before the landscape we inhabit: these are all sensations which, like the reader's bookshelves, belong to some taxonomic order...
...House System, which you admit "might not be the best for all students," vs. the admission of more women. Wouldn't the "diploma mill" you dread as a result of other (non-House) accommodations be cagendered also if equal admissions caused the ranks of Harvard undergraduates to swell to 9600 because of the inconceivability of admitting fewer men on a long-run basis? And how dare you deem, based solely on your own opinion, that the House system is the most important aspect of the Harvard experience...