Word: hauntedness
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World Bank Economist Irving Friedman traces the problem to the widespread unemployment, bleak breadlines and political upheavals of the Depression, which was ended only by a cataclysmic world war. That experience has haunted the economic memory of the world ever since, he believes, and caused governments in effect to enter...
Willy Brandt, whose Social Democratic Party suffered a stunning electoral setback in its traditional stronghold of Hamburg last week, is even more gloomy about the future. While West Germany sits on the fattest bankroll in Europe, its leaders are haunted by an old fear: that if Germans begin to push...
The main debt Belgian surrealism owed to the 19th century was, however, one of mood. Whether the artist was Degouve de Nuncques painting a strange, silent forest and a Magritte-like nocturnal house, or Khnopff giving a foretaste of the deserted townscapes of surrealism with his drawing of a city...
THIS IS NOT to say that people, having lost a sure faith in the American system, suddenly start believing that the world is haunted. Rather, they'll believe that it's haunted as much as they'll believe anything else. For what they have lost (and the news from Washington...
O'Neill wrote this play as a form of absolution for his brother. As with Long Day's Journey into Night, it was another attempt "to make peace with my dead," to lift the curse of the O'Neill family through the transfiguring insight and purgation of...