Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Step, Out of Date. Baldwin manages his set pieces well: a Harlem church service, the white world's Hollywood movies as seen through black eyes, a ghetto tenement flat on Saturday night. But the heterosexual love scenes are dry, joyless and dread-inducing, while some of the writing plays with trite truisms ("If you are depending on a guy for your life, you don't really much care what color he is"). The penultimate scene, in which the Negro star plays host to Barbara's white old-Kentucky-home family, seems to have been lifted...
...bombing struck dread into the North Vietnamese. They feared the fighter-bombers, but most of all they feared the B-52s. Reason: the B-52s fly so high-above 40,000 ft.-that their approach is unknown to those on the ground until the huge bombs fall on them. According to the U.S. estimates, 15,000 enemy troops were killed or injured by U.S. bombardment. The bombs obliterated trenches, leveled hills, scorched whole acres of land. They even wiped out the North Vietnamese headquarters bunker, killing all those inside. The bombing touched off 5,000 secondary explosions and more than...
...Monopoly Position," Dubček's program downgrades the dread State Security Service, or secret police, by depriving it of its ordinary police powers and confining its activities to counterespionage. The program asks for the rewriting of legal codes to assure "better and more consistent" protection of such rights as freedom of assembly and speech, envisions the proliferation of "specialinterest associations" and a strengthened role for non-Communist political parties. It also exhorts the Communist Party not to interfere in the work of the courts and judges...
...enters by dread, but sin in turn brought dread with it," wrote Kierkegaard, describing the guilt that floods the dark night of the soul. Another Scandinavian, Ingmar Bergman, plays out that quasi-religious concept by examining one soul in the blackness just before dawn-the Hour of the Wolf, "when nightmares are most palpable,' when ghosts and demons hold sway...
...almost too straight a line: as a boy, the painter was chastised by his parents, locked in a dark closet, then caned repeatedly by his father until he begged forgiveness from his mother. As Von Sydow descends into insanity, he keeps re-enacting that scene in the closet. His dread of the dark, his punishment and redemption, are constantly replayed; the characters who destroy him are shards of his shattered personality that, by direct transference, come to obsess his wife...