Word: feared
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Only one possible explanation exists: our officials fear the infiltration of "agents" educated by the Communists. If this is in fact the reason for their negative response, it is a poor one; our security system must be assumed to be better than such fear would indicate...
ICBMs: "Three separate systems-Atlas, Titan and Minuteman (and now Titan II)-are simply too many. The fear engendered by Soviet rockets has destroyed prudent judgment. We seem to be preparing not for retaliation but for obliteration...
...when demagogues could sway the great Southern Baptist Convention may be over, although the fear of the demagogue is still strong in official circles. The convention's greatest resource is in its increasing abundance of intelligent, well-trained young lay and clerical leadership. This group is sensitive to national and world opinion of Southern Baptists, and mindful of Baptist weaknesses as well as strength, it says, 'Give us time...
David McReynolds of the National Student Peace Union told the audience that America today is a captive nation--trapped by our fear of Russia, trapped by erroneous policies, and trapped in the area of economics. Businesses, unions, and universities are economically caught in the arms race because of the financial losses they would suffer if it ended. The group least caught, he claimed, is the students. "I ask you," he said, "to free your nation by your own thought, and beyond that by your own actions...
Actually, of course, the fear of success, though understandable enough in a civilization like ours which worships that shifty goddess, is an ignoble fear, and can become ridiculous, as in the pronouncements of those who revolt against the age by reversing its values. We are doubtless a contemptible generation, but it is not true that whatever succeeds with us must be bad. Frost and Eliot and Faulkner and Joyce and Brecht and O'Neill are and were enormous successes--far more successful than the great of other generations have been in their lifetimes. And it is not inconceivable...