Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warned Khrushchev by name that he could choose between trying to make a better life for the Russian people or, by trying to export Communism, lead them into a world of fear and suspicion...
...that we today really understand little better than do the characters in the play; the people in Macbeth are constantly baffled (what other play contains such a large proportion of questions?), and so are we. Much of the fantastic effect of Macbeth is due to the uncanny atmosphere of fear the Bard created--and this is a play about fear much more than about the "vaulting ambition" that our schoolteachers emphasize, even though Macbeth and his wife both attempt to explain their drive by invoking the inadequate word "ambition...
...began to book some musical acts. Along with Brubeck and Mulligan, jazz stars as well as pop singers drifted into the Hawk-Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Erroll Garner, Dorothy Dandridge, Johnny Mathis. Regulars remember how Eleanor Caccienti refused to ring the cash register when Dizzy Gillespie was talking for fear she would miss a joke. (Now the cash registers have no bells.) They recall the night a trombonist lost his pants in the middle of a solo, and the time Drummer Art Blakey belted a cymbal so hard that it bounced onto a ringside table where (according to Gleason...
...movie is about an inquisitive doctor with a ghoulish enthusiasm for slicing up the cadavers of those who died in fear. He is sure that fright is a living thing that survives in corpses in much the same way that hair and fingernails have been popularly believed to grow after death. So he performs an autopsy on the body of an electrocuted criminal, frightens his wife unconscious by faking her murder, finally shocks a deaf-mute into a heart-stopping nightmare-blood running from the bathroom spigot, a rubber-masked fiend with knife and hatchet popping out of closets...
...individual Catholic must "blindly and stupidly" knuckle under. But that is not true, and to demonstrate it, she wanted to stay in the contest-partly because, she felt, Senator Jack Kennedy was in much the same boat as she, i.e., his presidential candidacy is being opposed by people who fear that he might have to bow down to "hierarchical authority...