Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proponents to other viewpoints, and leads them to the all or nothing stage. It is then that the intellectual process breaks down, and a meaningful and productive interplay of ideas, which is so desperately needed now, ceases. I can only hope that both students and administrators will never be afraid to open themselves continually to self-doubt and self-questioning-to break the gel that means stagnation and, ultimately, failure...
...University [May 3] was superfluous, atrocious and inane. As soon as the students "captured" the various buildings Mr. Kirk should have given the order for the police to remove the students in any manner they deemed necessary. The method that the police exercised was excellent, but, I'm afraid, not quite as forceful as I, and many others, would like to have seen. When a minority of shaggyhaired rebels can seize college buildings and take human beings captive, our society is definitely lacking in some standard of subordination...
...North Side, an obese Appalachian woman grunted heavily as she heaved herself off the army blanket covering her bed. She flicked off the stained TV and said: "I've got trouble. My 14-year-old, he just got stabbed in the eye with a knife. The doctor's afraid he's goinq to lose it." Another son, a towheaded boy with a soot-smeared face, gave up playing with his bare toes and rapped the iron bedstead with a broken piece of cast iron. His mother rapped him clear across the room. The woman's husband is mentally deficient...
...poverty's most divergent allotment of poor. Their moods are remarkably lacking in self-pity. "My old lady went on welfare after we split up," says John Ross, 27, a white San Francisco warehouseman. "I think it stinks. People are so tied to that crummy check that they're afraid to say boo." Down Salinas way, in the bean-and-lettuce country celebrated by Steinbeck, leather-handed migrant workers?some of them Latin-Americans, whose 2,000,000 poor rank second only to Negroes in the U.S.?work the fields and wreck the saloons in an epic cycle...
...masculinity slur especially worried him, and still does. "I come from a family that has pride in family, pride in ancestors." He also felt that people in the street were thinking, "There goes that queer, there goes that homosexual, or there goes that man who is afraid of his masculinity." As to his attitude toward Hitler, his lawyer introduced letters written to his young children during World War II. Said one: Hitler "is a bad mistake God made once. He doesn't make many, but when He does, they are loo loos...