Word: unafraidness
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...short, all projects, temporalities, and self-extensions must be eliminated, the objective being that tranquility in which the present yields its secrets and the self emerges into reality. We must be sensitive to what is, vulnerable to the present, unafraid to face the loneliness of self, detached from all extensions and adornments...
...grateful that the foundations of freedom in our nation grow stronger with each passing year, giving hope to fettered peoples that they may walk as free men unafraid; that the yield of our soil and the production of our factories have been abundant, enriching our lives and enabling us to share our bounty with less fortunate ones in other lands; and that the forces of nature are being harnessed for peaceful purposes, bringing limitless possibilities of comfort and happiness both to ourselves and to future generations...
...pulled out from under him," says Director Allen Thomas, "is not sick. The experts have scared the wits out of laymen. The best way to treat a child, it seems to me, is to push here, guide there, play it by ear as any conscientious and unafraid father would...
Bishop Angel Herrera of Malaga is one of the few men unafraid to speak out in Franco's Spain. Last week in a pastoral letter published in Madrid's Catholic daily Ya, the bishop said: "There is in the conscience of Spain a great lack . . . We have created a type of Christianity poor in social virtues. The lack of justice and, to a great extent, of mercy, maintains a system of sharing the national wealth which gives to a minority the great bulk of our income and keeps the multitude in poverty...
...just as idiotic to make a fetish of dissent as of assent." Hook's summing-up: "The task of education is not to produce conformists or nonconformists but intelligent men and women who will see through slogans and who will take responsible positions on current problems of importance, unafraid to agree or disagree with anybody...