Word: dreading
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Nuclear war is a low-grade chronic dread in the back of the mind, Soviet churlishness a high-grade pain in the neck. And yet some deep though elusive process of healing seems to have occurred over a period of years in the American psychology, and the Fourth of July, 1984, may have been one more expression...
...WITH a certain mixture of dread and excitement that one finds John Updike undertaking the material of magic and witcheraft in his latest novel. The Witches of Eastwick. Updike is a terrific writer, this book should because for excitement. But he is also innocent of magic; in the way that one's marden great aunt is probably innocent of sex: one dreads his first chapter as one avoids bringing up procreation with auntie...
...coincidence, the N.C.A.A. and its Division I-A schools-the biggest football powers-were meeting in Chicago right after the high court ruling, and they frantically sought to avoid chaos and the dread consequences of TV oversaturation...
...living in Mexico, withdraws all the way to Olympus. There Athena and Aphrodite, no less, concern themselves with protecting the hapless members of an apolitical poetry group that meets each week in Buenos Aires. They have been denounced to the police, and a surveillance has been mounted. The dread nether god Hades decrees that twelve of the poets shall be seized by a parapolice murder gang. Can Hades be tricked into abandoning his evil intention by the underworld nymph Mintho and Hermes, the lust distracted messenger god? Are the gods, in fact taking proper care of their silly, self-important...
...orphan field that neither anesthesiology, neurology nor psychiatry can entirely claim as its own. As a result, research has been neglected and underfunded. The National Cancer Institute, for instance, spends little more than one-fifth of 1% of its $1.08 billion budget on pain research, even though the dread of terminal-cancer pain has become a national phobia...