Word: hauntedness
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Many of the women had spent years fighting for Communism as members of the party, among them Bulgaria's Tsola Dragoicheva and Jeannette Vermeersch Thorez (sturdy helpmeet of France's Communist leader). A self-declared exception was the U.S.'s small, intense Muriel Draper,* noted dilettante whose...
The assemblage had expected to hear resounding words about democracy. Instead, they were haunted by a ghost out of the past. To the rostrum stepped Fritz von Unruh, one of Germany's greatest writers (Way of Sacrifice), a Junker officer who turned pacifist. Exiled by the Nazis, he had...
"The Hour Has Come . . ." Today Spaak lives simply in a modest bourgeois neighborhood, with his tall, good-looking wife, his son Fernand (who served in the British navy) and his two younger daughters. He used to be an inveterate tennis player, once was tactless enough to beat King Gustaf of...
The characters of The Naked and the Dead are the members of a platoon, six of them survivors of a rubber-boat disaster at Motome, wearied, embittered, haunted by a premonition of death, snarling about the newcomers and (occasionally) feeling a grudging responsibility for them, nervous, profane, lecherous. Their conversation...
In addition to the study of such imaginative authors as Lovecraft, Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, the group plans more active doings for the future. Members contemplate field trips to "haunted houses" in and around Salem and Marblehead, and also have some catacombs lined up for investigation in Connecticut.