Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro possesses when, dating from the age of twelve or ten or earlier, he becomes aware that heis only merchandise, goods, in the eyes of all white people devoid of character or moral sense or soul." Hark called this feeling "black-assed," and it summed up the numbness and dread in every Negro...
...prospect of "victory" in Viet Nam [Sept. 22] fills me with dread. It would mean a continuation of the absurd philosophy that war can end war, a victory for militarists who would bring peace to mankind by killing him, and a further retreat into our paranoid delusion that we can spread brotherhood and love by filling the world with soldiers and guns...
...itself. The Marines mostly sit and wait, cramped in muddy bunkers and trenches. Day and night their 105-and 155-mm. howitzers shake the hilltops as they fire into the DMZ and into North Viet Nam beyond to interdict the Communist buildup and southward movement; day and night the dread cry of "Incoming!" rings through the camps as the Communists return the shells. It is a deadly duel of giant cannon more akin to World War I or Korea than to the rest of the war in Viet Nam, and it has long since potholed the rolling scrub hills...
...decisions are made in the Wednesday meetings. There are two, the first closed to the students, patients, and staff, and the second consisting of students, staff, and anyone else--except patients--who wants to attend. Ae Wellmet's only formal institution, the meetings are sometimes brutally frank. "Sometimes I dread Wednesdays," one student says. "My head is absolutely squishy after the meetings," a staff member comments...
...wondrous sleepwalking scene, of which every phrase refers to some earlier line, Miss Nye does not get much below the surface. And we know from the Nurse that Lady Macbeth is so affected by the dread deeds she has done in darkness that she insists on having a light by her all the time. Miss Nye enters with a lamp, but she leaves it behind when she exits, whereas Lady Macbeth would never go back to her bed without her light. Miss Nye clearly needs to rethink the whole part from scratch...