The humanities – CP Snow's "literary culture" – haven't much dignity left to stand on, since educational policy in the UK and the US has so aggressively foregrounded Stem subjects (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) after taking fright at the growing ranks of exceptional Indian and Chinese science graduates.
It wasn't a campaign about growing the economy, it was a campaign about fright".
As the Bee and I regarded one another from about ten inches distance, I felt a growing sense of compassion for it and a lessening in my fright.
There was a growing thirst among Australians to make their own movies, and Wake In Fright gave many who saw it, including Fred Schepisi and Peter Weir, the courage to do so in earnest, and not in exile.
How foolish of those strait-laced Mormons of Salt Lake City to spill the beans.The obvious risk for the IOC is that the evidence will grow, the public will be appalled, the sponsors will take fright and the television companies will lose heart in other words, the modern Olympics will slowly die.
That's a good thing, and it helps explain how "Splice" delivers for the horror movie fan who has grown weary of being suckered by films that promise new frights only to deliver the same old buckets of gore and guts.
Given that Ireland thrashed England in the 2011 tournament (and the Netherlands gave the same team a huge fright), it seems a harsh step on those nations trying to grow their cricket communities.
Although Carey explained that stage fright and the style of her songs made a tour very daunting, speculation grew that Carey was a "studio worm", and that she was incapable of producing the perfect pitch and 5-octave vocal range for which she was known.
The bafflement and fright that Gerald had felt in his first few days there she felt, too, and that sense only grew worse.
