Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works is curiously resistant to the historian's approach. Such massive evil can scarcely be conveyed by facts, figures and chronology. What is needed is another Dante with a genius for portraying hell, or a new Wagner who can translate horror into myth and spell out the dread meanings in a Götterdämmerung finale. Surrealist imagination, not research, may one day tell the definitive story; in the meantime, there are books...
...truly religious person all of life is colored by his philosophy, it is indeed a fair issue in the election of any man. It is John Kennedy's personal tragedy that his religion is a schizoid one, being also a political system. The fear-even amounting to dread-of Catholicism that we Protestants feel has nothing to do with the purely religious aspects of the faith. It is Catholicism as a political system that affrights us. John Kennedy's stout denial that it could happen to him causes us to suspect that he does not know...
...range of his detached intellectual rationale, when he considers the very possibility of a nuclear war. It is no longer his possessions, his own life, or the lives of his children alone which are at stake--it is the whole era of human history. Until this trans-rational dread of universal destruction becomes real enough to crowd out of his mind his every-day problems and worries, or even those of his country, no one will be willing to give up personal or national "practical" gains for the sake of human survival. This fear, which in itself...
Fuller, one of Nixon's former college teachers, urged that Nixon as a man is more worthy of our votes. "He has a wholesome dread of becoming a prisoner of a single point of view," Fuller declared. "The fundamental bent of his mind is liberal in the best sense, by which I mean that he is interested . . . in the how, an aspect of reform usually lost from sight in political argument...
...some 10,000 of us, dangerous criminals, were left." With bitter irony, he professes to have flushed the torn-up manuscript of his book down the toilet. It was recovered and pieced together only through the diligence and ingenuity of Tolya and Vitya, two secret policemen, members of "the dread invisible army," who have invented a special sewer-searching technique for screening the citizenry's most private acts...