Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor Lindsay in his attack on the campaign issue of law and order speaks of liberty. I find myself wondering if the liberty that he speaks of is the liberty to be afraid to walk the streets of a once-great city after dark, or the liberty to refrain from using its parks or the liberty of the people of that city to bolt and rebolt their doors and windows so that they may sleep free from the fear of being murdered in their beds. If this be liberty, then give me death...
...feeling-as a reader and subscriber-that TIME can err as an unusual consequence of work, but should apologize whenever necessary for the errors, especially if personal images are involved. It is a fact that Soraya did not attend any of the parties, and I'm afraid TIME can't be sure of her having made the referred-to statement. So, TIME should loyally apologize, and not just "note the demurrer...
Congressional anger at students was so strong that a Senate-House conference was afraid to remove the ban completely. The relatively liberal conferees softened it to allow universities to act as they wish, but the cutoff provision still stands as an expression of the strong feeling in Congress...
...boxes in his imagination for fear of its strength: he is afraid to govern himself, and so seeks a quiet world in a sterile niche of hierarchy. Thus he becomes his own captor and exploiter, and buries his dreams. Stage-fright soon makes spectators...
...Squad" is proof that someone who is paid to keep their finger on the nation's pulse thinks that America is scared of its young. America is afraid of the rock and roll army, scared of its rejection of their values, scared of the drugs kids take instead of alcohol, scared the kids might really be having fun in spite of the imminent wrath of God, scared that it might be true when the young say that adults lives are boring, trivial, and nourishing as spit...