Word: hauntedness
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THE SUCCESS OF THE new outlook rests on a rejection of the simplistic belief that "bigness is badness," a notion that has haunted Americans since populists like William Jennings Bryan and woodrow Wilson fired anti-business sentiment in the early part of the century. Instead, the intellectual underpinnings of Baxter...
The too-casual reader of these essays who thinks he is strolling down the garden path of English whimsy will soon find his heels being nipped by demons. Like the Irish country house of Cousin Ursula, the Warner world is haunted. Exotic objects like an old sedan chair mysteriously move...
From most of the drawings at Knoedler's, the image of landscape has receded. It is displaced-though not wholly abolished-by a curious motif Diebenkorn refers to as his "ace of spades," and which does resemble the black pip on that card pushed and pulled out of shape...
Since Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's black majority government took office in 1980, Zimbabwe has been haunted by the prospect of renewed racial strife between the dominant blacks and the whites, who make up less than 3% of the population but who still play a leading role in the...
Communism is serious competition for other social and economic systems in large measure because it is backed up by the threat of Soviet force. The leaders and citizens of other lands would not feel quite so haunted by the specter of Communism if they were not concerned about Soviet troops...