Word: hauntedness
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Coming at the end of a lifetime's work that ranges over all recorded history in dazzling detail, and pronounced at a time of unprecedented crisis, these words may sound like a thundering anticlimax. Yet the mind that formed them, the context in which they are set down and...
The baffling ease with which Toynbee glides over the millenniums, from the Austro-Hungarian monarchy to the U.S. Civil War to Carthage's "wooden curtain" of ships to Persian headgear to the Nestorian Uighur Turkish secretaries of the Mongols to the Tokugawa regime in Japan to the Argonauts to...
The receiving room of Los Angeles' big (3,500-bed) County General Hospital last week was jampacked with pain-racked men, women and children and their fear-haunted relatives. Hour after hour, nurses and doctors moved among them, checking symptoms and-all too often-confirming the diagnosis of polio...
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, saw the Roman Empire falling about him. A few months after he died (430 A.D.), the invading Vandals took Hippo, then a major North African strongpoint. In the ages that followed, the great cities of man crumbled, but their citizens found a spiritual home in Saint...
The bombing, meanwhile, had knocked the fight out of Diaz. At 2 a.m. he phoned the ambassador. "Senor Peurifoy," he said, "please come to my house.'' With a .38 Colt in his shoulder holster. Peurifoy drove through the empty, fear-haunted streets to the armed forces headquarters, where...