Word: frightening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know whether he is Freudian, Jungian or Adlerian. He is the name of what she clings to. Sarah understands her problem with merciless clarity: she yearns. "Yearn," she writes. "That is a word of such strength it makes me afraid." The specialty of the mediocre neurotic writer is to frighten a reader with his act. Sarah Ferguson does something far more subtle, far more relentless. She makes a reader enter not so much into her fears as her needs, forcing him to confess his humanity as she confesses hers, in words as spare as a prayer: "I want...
...always marvel at the capacity of the liberal mind to conjure up conservative hobgob lins with which to frighten their followers into forgetting the chaos and the misery to which the practice of liberal doctrines have brought this once great nation. William Loeb President, Manchester Union Leader
Brandt's Social Democratic Party is in poor shape, riven by conflicts between the radical young socialists (JUSOS) and the party establishment (TIME, April 23, 1973). The JUSOS frighten voters with their intemperate Marxist rhetoric. They dominate local meetings with their aggressive harangues, and they control the party organizations in Munich and Frankfurt...
Isadora is no model of the liberation. But she could be, given a bit of self-discipline. She talks, after all, a fair feminist game. Men's minds are befuddled, their ideas are impossible, women frighten them--but then they have those "silky penises." The real sexual inequity is not that men have this great added marvel, a penis, but that "the female has an all-weather cunt. No wonder men invented the myth of female inadequacy." Women's only problem is jiving the need for sex with feminism. Sock it to 'em, Erica, baby. Show 'em what it feels...
John Barrymore's corpse in order to frighten a performer. When he returned the body to the mortuary, an undertaker asked, "Where did you take him, Mr. Walsh?" Walsh said, "I took him up to Errol Flynn's." The undertaker said, "Why the hell didn't you tell me? I'd have put a better suit...