Word: fear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ridiculous. And all the while he was claiming suppression of Communist or Socialist doctrine by the University, he interspersed glowing pictures of the Socialist State, and even went so far as to hold out alluring promises of $5,000 a year to its members. We are led to fear that Mr. Lamont never passed the examination he sentimentally recalled taking in Emerson...
...also led to fear that the whole protest meeting was a publicity stunt, in view of the anonymous offer of a hall for Browder to the John Reed Society. Their refusal to consider the University's side of the question, their railroading of their resolution, their complete denial of the floor to the opposition made the whole meeting a farce and a burlesque of the democracy for which they claim to fight. Signed, George F. Snell '41, A. R. Cowper, Dwight D. Taylor, Jr. '41, John Van Landingham '41, Alfred E. Gras '41, Dana Stockbridge, Keith R. Symon, Francis George...
...must there be an investigation of rights and liberties guaranteed by three hundred years of liberal traditions? . . . We fear that any committee to 'explore' the basis of Harvard's policy will only discover new technicalities with which to curtail our liberties...
Green's journal is an anthology of the things which an intelligence of a high order has seen, heard, talked of, cared for, feared, felt, thought, during the past ten years. There is an obsession, as readers of his novels would expect, with death; a strong interest in the "macabre" (a word he nowhere uses); a pervasive fear of war, of revolution, of the end of civilization; the constant meditation of a devout man who has abandoned formal religion. There are "portraits" of Gide, Stein, Cocteau; excellent observations on painting, sculpture, music, films, above all on writing...
...article which has perhaps the most lasting significance is the somewhat discouraging review of Harvard's reaction to the first year or two of the World War by G. Robert Stange '41. The theme which is here introduced is one which runs throughout the present issue: the fear that America will be again drawn into the European war. The warnings deduced from a survey of the past are bolstered by an editorial based upon the new program of the Student Union and by a reasoned plea of Porter Sargent '96, for a greater wariness in the face...