Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medieval life in all its variety--from a young girl destined for the stake for witchcraft, to a family of simple traveling actors, significantly named Mary, Joseph, and their child, Michael (Hebrew for "like unto God"). They move among people who, except for the actors, are obsessed with the dread of death and try to escape their fears through cruelty, crime, self-torture, and superstition. The object of the knight's quest is to know--not just to hope or trust, but to know--whether there is "something beyond the darkness" before he dies...
...according to testimony not only from pressagents-those untrustworthy upbeat philosophers-but according to anybody else connected with the show. And practically everybody gives the credit to the Oriental qualities of patience and politeness. Says Production Supervisor Jerry Whyte, a tough veteran of R. & H. shows since Oklahoma!: "I dread to think another show with two principals running nip and tuck like this one. But here you see no rivalry. They have a genuine friendship for each other...
Singing Theologicals. In this verbally sparkling but essentially dismal exercise in self-vindication and world indictment, Huxley has assembled a mass of evidence to suggest that the human race is approaching his dread vision of total togetherness much more quickly than he estimated. (Huxley set the time of his soma-happy society in the 7th century A.F., or After Ford.) Institutes for Motivational Research, hidden persuaders and singing commercials make Huxley think man is being nudged closer to the dark side of the moonstruck world he once described...
...chill of lurking dread is no longer so chilly, the pace no longer so breathless as in Greene's earlier thrillers. He cannot resist slipping in a cruel, pointless caricature of a dumb U.S. businessman, or an unlikely scene in a top-secret conference, at which Wormold's secretary sprays the green baize with Greene bitterness. Such interludes damage the "entertainment," but they cannot really spoil the unique formula of suspense plus...
Author Berton's book is jammed with the tragic stories of tenderfeet who tried to reach the golden creeks by boat, over the dread mountain passes and even over a sure-death glacier route. Even those who found great wealth often lost it, to gamblers, business crooks, the girls, or over the bars. Carmack died respectably, leaving his second wife, a former brothel-keeper, a fortune. But Lucky Swede Anderson, divorced by his dance-hall girl, died pushing a wheelbarrow in a sawmill for $3.25 a day. Lucky always denied that he ever had a million: "The most...