Word: hagridden
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...mean, they're much sharper. Also they're physically more adept. If we had the jumping ability of a cat from a standing position, we'd be able to jump on the top of a two-story house. It's pretty amazing. The other thing is, animals are not hagridden by ideologies. There are no screens between them and reality, so they see things much more clearly than people...
...action, not of elaborate legality. A man's fate depends on his own choices and capacities, not on the vast impersonal forces of society or science. His motives are clearly this or that, unsullied by psychologizing (except, of course, in the Freudian frontier yarns). Moreover a man cannot be hagridden; if he wants to get away from women, there is all outdoors to hide in. And he is not talk-ridden, for silence is strength. Says Sociologist Philip Rieff: "How long since you used your fists? How long since you called the boss an s.o.b.? The western...
Alejandra seems fated to go mad and to kill Fernando, the father whom she has tried to repudiate. With its hints of incest and its portrait of a doomed family hagridden by history, Alejandra's tale is South American gothic at its most feverish...
More important, Truman was hagridden by a long, apparently stalemated Asian war. While the Korean armistice negotiations begun ten months before remained in limbo, Republicans were sniping mercilessly at the Administration, hissing about Deepfreezes and mink coats, Communism and corruption in Government. More than ever, Truman was ready for the peace of Independence, Mo. In fact, he had made his withdrawal decision a full three years before, confiding it, like Johnson, to only a few intimates. In a memorandum to himself early in 1950, Truman wrote: "Eight years as President is enough...
There is little present danger that any such aberration will recur, or at least in so virulent a form. On the contrary, the generally permissive reception accorded last week's demonstrations suggests that the American electorate has matured considerably since the hagridden, self-doubting days of the early 1950s. There is a danger, nonetheless, that continuing and escalating disorders on the pattern of last week's outbursts could lead not to a freer and more constructive dialogue about the direction of U.S. foreign policy but to an increasingly emotional standoff between intransigent extremes. That outcome...