Word: hauntedness
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The 1,192 islands of the Maldives make up what's arguably the lowest-lying country in the world. The average elevation is a little more than 3 ft. above sea level, and what's considered high ground tops out at under 10 ft. Even now, storm surges combined with...
Wagener seems unable to make this distinction. He mistakes Hitler's flights of quasi-history and pseudo science for higher truth. It is a form of mental alchemy that confuses metaphor with fact. Somewhere in the Führer's murky idea of Europe's gene pool, the Volk await a...
Subsequent studies showed that IP was common to both sexes. Harvey, who first read Clance's work in 1978 and discovered a description of the fears that haunted her, went a step further and calibrated the syndrome. She devised the Harvey IP scale, a series of 14 self-evaluating statements...
The majority reaction of the era, however, still was not to look squarely at what was feared. Literature took a very sidelong glance. In what other age would the perpetually haunted and displaced hero have emerged with such stature? In what other age would a writer like Kafka have been...
Once again South Africa was gripped by painful and potentially dangerous spasms of repression-unrest-repression, a cycle that has periodically haunted the country since the early '60s. With each peak of confrontation the state of affairs has worsened, while the essential issues have remained as unresolved as ever. Not...