Word: frights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father is actually a stepfather (Sergei Bondarchuk), and in the film's first episode he strides into the boy's world like a giant out of a fairy tale. Huge-eyed with fright, the child watches the giant as he splutters prodigiously at the bathroom washbowl. Working up his courage, he inquires in a very small voice: "Are you going to whip me?" The man replies: ''Why should I?" A light wakes in the child's eyes. When his stepfather leaves the bathroom, Seryozha goes shyly to the washbowl, makes a tentative little splutter...
...three is in half as bad shape as he is." Thurber's readers, all paid-up members of the age, of anxiety, knew very well they were in bad shape, and so Walter Mitty's moonings were hauntingly their own. So was Grant's frightful hangover as he surrendered confusedly to Lee at Appomattox, and the nameless little man's fright as he stood before the house that looked to him like a great, crouching wife...
Past the Grave. Firbank was as queer a bird as ever fluttered. Pathological shyness contorted his thin frame. It constricted his throat so that he could hardly eat in company; at a dinner given for him, he managed to down one green pea. At his club, he once took fright at the sight of the headwaiter and hid under the table. He had, of course, an independent income (poor people with Firbank's temperament simply die or are shut away). He came from solid stock: his grandfather worked his way up from the coal mines to become a contractor...
...apathy not as indifference, but as fright," said Alpert. The individual, afraid of standing out, loses any desire to act. "Coolness," according to Alpert, defines another characteristic type of apathy, personified by the failing student who reacts with "Only shlunks sweat...
...aroused and both the press and Mayor Christopher attacked Judge Cronin's ruling. Last week the other youths charged with conspiracy had their trial set for Dec. 4. But whatever the final verdict of the courts, the Bowmans will never be the same. "We are filled with fright," says Elizabeth Bowman. "This has made both of us into people we never thought we could be. I tell myself that two years of my life have been taken away-but then I wonder if my whole life is gone...