Word: horror
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Nearly every undergraduate has a horror story to tell about teaching fellows, but even if many of these stories are exaggerated, they do reflect problems in the way Harvard teaches...
...horror of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should spur citizens worldwide to call for an end to the nuclear arms race, atomic bomb survivors said yesterday before an audience of 25 people at the Divinity School's Andover Hall...
...that furlough, but earlier this month prison officials did grant him an eight-hour pass without notifying Barnes or Bianco. Matheney drove to Mishawaka and, according to authorities, broke into Bianco's home, then beat her to death outside with the butt of a shotgun, as neighbors watched in horror...
...that point a generalized fear of fruit swept the country. National Restaurant Association spokesman Jeffrey Prince said, "We learned to our relief that Granny Smith apples were not treated with Alar, only to learn to our horror that they were included in the Chilean ban. It seems you can't win for losing." Health-conscious restaurants that had banished artery-clogging red meat, butter, eggs and cheese from their menus now had to remove the fruit plate...
Nothing is wrong with the source material, which has inspired countless other stage adaptations. Franz Kafka's story of a man who one day wakes up as a giant insect has provided one of the 20th century's hallmark nightmare images. The essence of the horror is that there is no explanation for it, no deeper meaning, no instructive or redemptive metaphor: the suffering just is. In the transmutation of Gregor Samsa, the world ceases to be predictable or rational; natural and moral order disappear. Critics have found in Kafka's vision hints of everything from the Holocaust to AIDS...