Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hate is a blinding thing and fear renders some men speechless. Yet James Thomas ("Tom Tom") Heflin, Senate "fat boy" senior statesman from Alabama, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, can still see out of his pale-blue eyes; can still talk and talk and talk...
...them they were assembled and sent to Leavenworth where most of them are still doing time. But Big Bill Haywood had boarded a boat and sailed to Europe. He did not pay his passage; burly, black with dirt, pathetically tough, Bill Haywood stoked the furnace of the ship that fear had made him board. In Moscow, where he went when he landed, Big Bill Haywood was again a hero for a little while. They put him in charge of a mining enterprise at Kuznetsk, which he managed so badly that it failed. In Russia, Big Bill's vast radicalism...
Specialists announce "fear of relapse is over" and review in detail stomach, heart and "paratyphoid influenza" symptoms, which had contributed to the disorder...
...Significance. Something of a Satyr himself, Author Douglas has long contemplated the absurdities of man and man-made gods. The fruit of his three score years of contemplation is a brilliant exposure of those gods, pointing to the irony of the fear they are able to rouse in man. His leisurely narrative is rich in satire and delicious humor, which may easily be misunderstood for meaningless, if somewhat lickerish, drool. But even the most matter-of-fact reader will envy the bright existence led by Douglas' creatures, and be charmed by his prose...
From first to last, Hardy was sad. He revealed a shadowy disillusion which grew in anger until it attained terrifying proportions. His characters were assailed by a curse that left "happiness but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain." There is an undefinable fear of life growing from the feeling that all is transitory and vain. Hardly lavished scrupulous care on his work, with the inevitable result that this gloom of life found artistic outlet in his realistic portrayal of man suffering the torments imposed by an ever-malignant Fate...