Word: hates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pallbearers are surely terrified of them. Not only do the ceremonies serve as a kind of collective memento mori, but they are the outward manifestation of an inner process that must be highly traumatic. The Soviet leaders are among the most conservative on earth. They hate uncertainty, they loathe unpredictability. Leadership transitions are fraught with both. So this time around, they decided to cope with the dilemma by going to Gorbachev. That way, they hoped, the system could at least stave off another transition for a long time. Gorbachev, in short, offered the prospect of institutional longevity...
...what it really referred to was the American Jews who knew of the situation in the Soviet Union and said nothing. Indifference . . . it is something I know about." His grieving voice, marked with the intonations of the exile, trails off. "Silence is the worst thing, worse than mere hate. If we ignore the suffering, our true literary prophecy will not be The Trial or The Stranger but Hitler's Mein Kampf. This is what I fight against...
Said Blair, "I'd hate to get into the NCAA s as a loser...
...there is worse. The young girl is, Chavel realizes, "one of the unlucky ones who believe." On her own testimony, she feels herself damned in God's eyes, unable to worship because of her inability to forgive an enemy. She confesses, "It's the hate that keeps me away. Some people can drop their hate for an hour and pick it up again at the church door. I can't. I wish I could." Chavel, who has been asked to stay on as a handyman, falls in love with Therese and thinks he can both redeem his guilt and save...
...fact, Amis is quite the scold. His Rabelaisian comic gift cuts savagely at the patchwork of relativism and materialism that passes for modern social fabric. The novel's loutish hero, John Self, is a grotesque victim of life in the fast lane: "I hate people with degrees, O-levels, eleven-pluses, Iowa Tests, shorthand diplomas," says Self. "And you hate me, don't you. Yes you do. Because I'm the new kind, the kind who has money but can never use it for anything but ugliness...