Word: dollard
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...test of all military training and leadership. More than arms and armor, the basic elements in any battle are the human factors loosely called "fear" and "courage." This week a scholarly analysis, Fear in Battle tried to put these imponderables into statistical form. Its author: Professor John Dollard, research associate in social anthropology in Yale's Institute of Human Relations...
...When Dr. Dollard began his search for facts on fear 18 months ago, the biggest available group of Americans who had felt the impact of modern war was the Abraham Lincoln Brigade-the volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. (The study concerned their military experience, not their political views.) "The typical informant was a rifleman, noncommissioned, poorly trained by American Army standards, wounded. All observers seem to agree that he was a tough fighting...
Button-bursting with pride, mother and friends sent the letters on to Canadian newspapers which published them. Roy's exploits were confirmed by a letter from "Air Vice Marshal Dollard" to his mother, dramatized over the air by Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Soon Buckley was Canada's most popular, most publicized air hero...
...Authors Dollard & Davis sketched in their background with a few statistics: e.g., in Natchez the average Negro family's income is less than $400 a year; one child in three is a bastard. A Pullman porter rates as middle-middle class; a family with $250 a month is upper-middle class; more than three-fourths of Negroes are lower class; a Negro's social standing rises according to the lightness of his skin, the straightness of his hair. Case histories...
...Authors Dollard & Davis' conclusion: Negroes are doubly bedeviled by class and caste anxieties; one way to alleviate Negro problems is for society to visit less punishment on Negro children, more sympathetic understanding...