Word: hauntedness
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"And, my friends, more important than winning the election is governing the nation . . . When the tumult and the shouting die, when the bands are gone and the lights are dimmed, there is the stark reality of responsibility in an hour of history haunted with those gaunt, grim specters of strife...
Any correspondent worth the price of a cable toll knows that, in moving to a new post, he will inherit a desk calendar covered with mysterious scrawls, address books with unidentified phone numbers, a bewildering assortment of old news clippings, and a series of phone calls meant for his predecessor...
What was wrong with the Italians? "They wave their 'ands when they talk," groused one Englishman. "They wink at the women and shampoo their 'air." Worst of all, said a squat Yorkshire digger, "They 'aven't larnt to talk English proper." Back of this pettiness was...
Like all announcers, Stark and Herlihy are haunted by the possibility of blowing their lines. Herlihy made one of the first U.S. television commercials back in 1941: when he saw the TV camera bearing down on him, he forgot every line he had carefully memorized. Announcers still shudder at the...
¶ Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune: "Witness . . . is the self-dramatization of a soul, haunted by morbid guilt and touched with religious passion, a 'confession' and one of the extraordinary documents of our time."